Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Titans of the Press in the last century were Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), and Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the lamented New York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...
Besides their journalism schools, the two old Joes left behind two able young Joes. In St. Louis, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. runs the Post-Dispatch. In Manhattan, Grandson Joseph Medill Patterson has made a phenomenal success of the tabloid Daily News. Like many another practical newsman of this generation, "Joe" Patterson has little faith in schools of journalism. Last week, after reading the Pulitzer School's announcement, he filled the whole editorial column of his News with a piece entitled "On How Not to Teach Journalism." With it he printed a picture of Columbia's aging President Nicholas Murray...
Boyd's City Dispatch of Manhattan has been in the wholesale name business for 105 years. To salesmen and promoters it sells long lists of wealthy widows, clubmen, semi-millionaires, millionaires, multimillionaires and plain rich people. Last week Boyd's City Dispatch mailed out to its clients Bulletin 68-the latest name-list quotations. For $200 an energetic advertising manager can get the names of 14,441 people in New York City worth $100,000 or more. A batch of 721 multimillionaires costs $15, the wealthiest widows of Greater New York (1,172), $20. For $17.50 a buyer...
...there is little doubt that the effect of Hitler's bombshell was as astounding to him as to the world at large. That an avowedly antagonistic, chronically suspicious France should wait four days before even calling a cabinet meeting to dispatch any sort of a protest was incredible; but that she should furthermore tag along behind a Britain become singularly prudent probably exceeded his fondest expectations...
...these eight short stories, three were included in Author Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect...