Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime argument against Prohibition was that it choked Federal courts with thousands upon thousands of new criminal cases, made it impossible for those courts to administer justice with reasonable care and dispatch. Last week, following the annual Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, Chief Justice Hughes reported that Repeal had not appreciably eased Federal court burdens. Prohibition cases had simply been replaced by liquor revenue cases. As of June 30, declared the Chief Justice, some 2,400 fewer cases were piled up in Federal district courts than at that time last year but that was because judges had stricken many...
...American doctrine of freedom of the seas is dead," learned London's Morning Post from its Washington correspondent. Echoed the Manchester Guardian in a Manhattan dispatch: "It is generally accepted here that the United States has renounced the doctrine of freedom of the seas...
...news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...
...sailed this week for war service and the latter's brother the Duke of Pistoia volunteered. Meanwhile the Englishman to whom Ethiopia's Emperor granted a vast concession intended for "Standard Oil'' (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.) was lashed last week in a most unusual dispatch from London by the New York Times's leading correspondent, Frederick T. Birchall. Cabled...
...Pope in Castel Gandolfo presently caused his Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli to dispatch two cable-grams. To New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Papal Legate, went...