Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within twelve hours after the Supreme Court voided NRA last fortnight the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and Los Angeles Times removed the Blue Eagle from their mastheads. Within 24 hours the Boston Transcript, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit Free Press, many another anti-New Deal newspaper did likewise. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner hoisted red-white-&-blue flags in the Eagle's place. The New York Times and Scripps-Howard dailies everywhere left their Eagles flying. The lusty, liberal tabloid New York Daily News, first in the city to hoist the Eagle, ostentatiously hauled it down...
...inevitable sentence, is nerve-rackingly exciting. Not the least skilful touch is the placing on the last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these is "a special dispatch to "The New York Times of July 2, 1924, which appeared under this headline: FRENCH ACQUIT & SHOT FOR MUTINY IN 1915; WIDOWS OF TWO WIN REWARDS OF? CENTS EACH...
Howard H. Babcock '35, who completed his studies at mid-years, climbed over the 17,500 foot Guichla page and returned down the glacier, being the first man to cross the Tallong Valley, it was reported by the United Press in a dispatch from Calcutta...
...last week evening readers were astonished to find the News and Union editions nearly identical. The front pages were exactly alike, each including many an Associated Press dispatch although the News is no AP member. The phenomenon was accounted for, but not fully explained, by the lead story in both papers...
...staid, suburban Oak Park, where they were raised. Their father who founded the company in 1889 had the distinction of having once cornered the Spanish peanut market and annoyed his less hearty neighbors by keeping a herd of cows on his broad lawns. In winter the Brothers Mills dispatch their jointly-owned yacht Minoco (after their company; to Florida where they continue their fun-making while fishing. Once they made a composite photograph, showing the heads of the four brothers on bodies of more fortunate fishermen...