Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second move was to dispatch 18,000 peasants, mainly drawn from congested rural districts, to new Government-improved farms on the Libyan coast. The Government intends to transfer 50,000 peasants to Libya by 1942, at a cost...
...Louis, the threatened bombing of Memphis. A brave Californian telephoned Oakland police that he was prepared to go East and repel the invader. In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save it from the enemy. Pious Virginians telephoned the Richmond Times-Dispatch that they were praying...
...dispatch yesterday from the News revealed that speculation must continue to run riot on Silliman's structural possibilities, for even the building architects, Messrs. Eggers and Higgins, successors to the late great John Russell Pope, were unable to shed any light towards a solution of this mystery...
...dispatch from Miss Corelli announcing delivery on the House was read at the ceremonies and was greeted with "a long and loud outburst of enthusiasm...
...Large Hole." By what Professor Haldane believes to be scientific standards, King George and Queen Elizabeth last week were taking pathetically inadequate precautions, which will leave them just about at ground level in case of an air raid, not 60 feet down under. Read a United Press dispatch from London: "A bomb and gas-proof shelter is being built in the basement of Buckingham Palace for the King and Queen. It consists of two rooms which formerly were the maids' resting rooms. ... A large hole has been knocked in the wall of the Palace near the shelter to enable...