Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacks on M. Salengro have rehearsed, week after week, assertions that during the War he, as a French soldier and cyclist dispatch rider, deserted to the enemy. This was rammed home by Gringoire with endless cartoons of "Cyclist Salengro" (see cuts) and by this tag the Minister was nightly mocked by comedians in Paris music halls. Friends of M. Salengro said that a "Commission of Honor" headed by the Chief-of-Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor...
...July 1934 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relieved its liberal chief editorial writer, Clark McAdams, of his writing job, kicked him upstairs to the executive desk of an associate editor. The following year Clark McAdams died. Many a friend of his believes that Editorialist McAdams' death was hastened by his sorrow, in the face of Franklin Roosevelt's promises and policies, at the more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation...
Rumors have been wafted about Harvard all week that the Navy was to go out all hog over the game and was to dispatch three battleships from Annapolis to Boston Harbor, where they would anchor for the night...
...Prime Minister was at his comfortable best when he got slowly to his feet, leaned heavily on the dispatch box and observed like a true John Bull: "I don't think there was any Fascism in Italy before Communism began. The same thing was true of Germany. Force begot force, as it always does. In this country, thank God, these two forces are not worth that together!"-here Mr. Baldwin snapped his fingers. "A curious feature," he continued, "is that at this moment in England we are reversing the process of Italy and Germany, and the petty efforts...
...Including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star...