Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malan's Nationalist Party has dismissed the movement as a Communist campaign. However, A. T. Steele, in a dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, expressed the feeling prevalent among most people who have studied the resistance movement. He said, "There is little doubt that some Communists have infiltrated the passive resistance movement . . . . In any case it is apparent that the great majority of those participating in the movement have no Communist connections...
Correspondent George H. Hall of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shot a question at the President: "Could you identify the group of persons in the White House or the Administration who give final clearance to nominations . . . before you send them to the Senate...
...golf course, one of the world's finest. Last week, as they watched, a squad of black policemen trundled on to the fairway an odd-looking contraption of ropes and parallel bars. It was the Crown Colony's portable gallows, an 18th century-style instrument used to dispatch Mau Mau terrorists near the scene of their crimes...
...resemblance to the late Justice Holmes is purely coincidental," writes D. R. Fitzpatrick, political cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in decribing his nomination for the Harvard presidency. He adds that the drawing is not supposed to resemble former football great W. Barry Wood '32, now a professor at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis...
...winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Fitzpatrick has been drawing for the Post-Dispatch since 1913. His cartoons have also appeared in Coller's. This is the second of a series on the next chief executive of the University. Later drawings will be by Wait Kelly, creator of Pogo, the New York Times' drama cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, and the New Yorker's R. Thyler, illustrator of "Fractured French...