Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international scheme for the immediate dispatch of food, etc, to Central Europe...
According to a cable dispatch, an old gentleman of 80 recently climbed the dingy stairs to the students' salon. He carried a picture in his arm and asked to have it hung. The old gentleman was Claude Monet (TIME, March 17, Aug. 6). The picture was his reply to reports that, blind, he would never paint again...
Miss Helen Wills: " The New York Evening Post, in a dispatch from Berkeley, Cal., ignorantly referred to me as ' Miss Hazel Wills...
Forty-two years ago a child was born at Hillsboro, Ohio. Fifteen years ago that child, grown to manhood, became editor of the Hillsboro Dispatch. Two years ago last June 11 he was appointed United States Prohibition Commissioner by President Harding. He is Roy Asa Haynes. During the last two years he has, in his own words, " devoted every ounce" of his energy to his official task. Daily he was importuned to make addresses or write articles on his work. Finally he came to believe that the public and the prohibition cause could best be served by writing a "simple...
...therefore, with surprise that Americans read a recent dispatch from London stating that a bill has been introduced in Parliament which "would enable present peers to renounce their titles and would bar heirs and heiresses born after the passage of the bill from . The measure comes from a Laborite member of the House of Commons himself of aristocratic lineage and whether it is passed or defeated, it is at least a significant mark in the trend of British history...