Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington agent orders the dispatch about the President "stopped." Nothing is said about the truth or falsity of the report...
...absence of Editor Ted Scott, vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type...
These names, and millions more, are for sale by Boyd's City Dispatch, which last week, in the 105th year of its existence, decided to incorporate. Said President Edgar J. Williams, 72, who has been Boyd's owner & manager since 1900, "It's a dangerous thing nowadays not to be incorporated." Boyd's City Dispatch was founded in Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within...