Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed, it went on, was a "directive class.'' Would Mr. Candler be the first to buy a title in the Nobility of the United States? Prices: Duke, $1,000,000; Marquis, $700,000; Count, $500,000; Baron, $200,000. To become a nobleman, Mr. Candler must choose his title, dispatch a check within 18 hours to one J. P. Reinach of Washington...
...Huntington, W. Va. Herald-Dispatch solemnly stopped publishing the famed comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," last week on the ground that "Annie has been made the vehicle for a studied, veiled, and alarmingly vindictive propaganda...
...diligent, honest and intelligent Editor James Clendenin of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, this sounded like arrant propaganda for "rugged individualism." A Progressive Republican, Editor Clendenin appeared to feel that Daddy Warbucks and Orphan Annie were oldline Republican Tories. Last week he published a front-page editorial...
...opinion of the Herald-Dispatch, the creator of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie has violated his sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
...comic strip page, above "Moon Mullins," "Reg'lar Fellers," "the Gumps" and "Mutt & Jeff," the Herald-Dispatch ran in Annie's place a big black banner: DELETED! FOR VIOLATION OF READER TRUST...