Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was elected Speaker last month, Joseph Wellington ("Call Me Uncle") Byrns was widely regarded as a legislative weakling incapable of running the top-heavy House with discipline and dispatch. With a 3-to-1 advantage over the Republicans, he could not possibly lose a fight but he was not expected to win many with flash and finesse. Last week brought the first major test of his capabilities as a Speaker and he prepared to make it a great demonstration, to show doubters once & for all that the Democratic majority in the House could and would roll opposition flatter...
Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
...German newspapers about every six-months for the past 25 years. Nearly always it is issued from, some remote town in Eastern Europe. Two weeks after the Woollcott-Williams conversation, the same old story landed on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune as an Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, with the headline: PARENTS KILL RICH SON POSING AS A STRANGER Pole, Home After 18 Years In the U. S., Goes Unrecognized...
...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...
...accustomed were correspondents to thinking of Mussolini as anti-French at this time that one great U. S. news service put a dispatch on the wire which caused editors to headline: ITALY HA-HA'S FRENCH AMITY. Half Million Fascists Roar at Mussolini's "Joke...