Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house at Hanover in a sad mood. The War had come too late for him. "I wondered whether my Emperor and King would require my services," he wrote in his memoirs. "No hint whatever of the kind had reached me during the last twelve months." Suddenly came a dispatch informing him that His Majesty had given him command of the Eastern Army. He had only time to get together the most necessary articles of clothing and have his old uniform put in condition for service...
...Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...late great Joseph Pulitzer founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. His capital was $5.200. The paper's circulation started at 987. In 1882 it was earning $85,000 a year. With his profits Publisher Pulitzer bought the New York World in 1883, built it into an even greater newspaper than the Post-Dispatch...
...companies to his sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
...convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last in the U. S. for a long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail rates...