Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholly incomplete list of papers which approved the Supreme Court's action would include the Birmingham -Herald, published in the State where the crime occurred: the Raleigh News and Observer, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Memphis Commercial Appeal urged the authorities of Alabama not to try the defendants again, saying that there is too much doubt concerning their guilt...
VIRGINIUS DABNEY Chief Editorial Writer Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond...
...being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading his own territory with Wirephotos. Moreover, said he, the Wirephoto machines were bought with money ($432,000) that belonged to the whole AP -non-users of Wirephoto as well as users. Angrily to the defense rushed Publisher Joseph Ridder of the St. Paul Dispatch et al. Cried he: "An insult to the board of directors! . . . You get what you pay for m this world, and now we are asked to vote that forever after the AP may never improve its mat-service if it should cost more...
...been touched on." Obviously it had. The conference had lasted two hours. Obviously the President, tanned a deep brown from his outing, had an opinion about the House's activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri...
...coming from a State where every paper of note attacks him violently, he is grateful for small favors. He looks kindly on the New York Times because he thinks it alone gives him a fair break. His best newshawk friend is Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Recently a story went the Washington rounds to the effect that Senator Long did the unheard-of thing of calling informally on Correspondent Anderson at his home one evening, accompanied by two bodyguards carrying "violin cases." "Just dropped in for a chat," said the Senator. "Don't mind...