Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really care if they ever hear from the Reich again; in fact, if all three countries were to sink rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime...
...complained German-born Anton Karthausen that his hand-made dresses and skirts did not sell well in Brownsville, Tex. Joyously last week Herr and Frau Karthausen and child were hurrying back to the Fatherland on tickets sent them by gentle Adolf. Of all forms of publicity for Nazidom the dispatch of such "Hitler tickets" was proving the most effective. Proud as Punch was tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor's closest friend, who staged the return from Reading, Pa. of stranded Ignatz Westenkirchner & family (TIME...
...first possible objection is that I am a trustee, director and stockholder in the Pulitzer Publishing Company, which publishes the St. Louis Post Dispatch...
...Last fortnight, the London Daily Herald claimed the world's biggest circulation (2,030,000). †The 16 Gannett papers: Rochester Times-Union, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Albany Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, Elmira Telegram, Newburgh News, Ithaca Journal-News, Olean Herald, Ogdensburg Journal, Beacon News. Malone Evening Telegram (all in New York State). Also Hartford (Conn.) Times, and Plainfield (N. J.) Courier-News...
...Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix: "I don't know whether my husband shot himself or not but there is no doubt that he would still be alive if the police had not left him without medical attention for two hours. My husband was always floating financial schemes which we agreed...