Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
Service to a community by its newspaper was most admirably exemplified, the committee held, by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, is on the board of award. For exposure of fraudulent election registration in St. Louis last summer (TIME, Sept. 28), the Post-Dispatch was given a big gold Pulitzer plaque...
...sixth time in his political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
...retaliation for the company's petition for an injunction, the union then carried its sit-down technique one step further, took full possession of the offices, refused to let officials enter at all and prevented the delivery or dispatch of company mail. Only thing the strikers did not seize was the company's officials themselves. These announced that they would attend to as terms." At least 500,000 Britons should now be rushed out as new farmers onto the Kingdom's land as a rearmament measure, according to Mr. Lloyd George last week, but Mr. Chamberlain...
...middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman that in 1927 Newman confessed to the Post-Dispatch how he and Birger had murdered State Policeman Lory Price and his wife. Officials had never been able to find Mrs. Price's body; Rogers' revelations located it in an abandoned mine shaft. Newman was jailed for life. Charlie Birger went to the gallows...