Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, doctors, experts and specialists have seized upon this situation with all the impersonal, detached enthusiasm characteristic of the scientific mind, congregating in St. Louis as to a great field laboratory. When a Post-Dispatch reporter asked a woman from the East, distinguished in research, her aim in coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat...
...same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations at Washington settled down into a long pull-dick-pull-devil between...
...This truly indescribable incident must be the last. An energetic démarche is necessary if the facts are as related in this dispatch. There has been incident upon incident, and one does not know where they may lead...
...Paul, Minn, last week learned that it is to become a one-newspaper town. The Ridder Brothers. Manhattan chain publishers, got control of the only daily there that they did not already own. They operate the evening Dispatch and the morning Pioneer Press. What they bought was the slipping, 33-year-old evening News, for a reputed price...
...Paul NRA officials that if the News were killed, 1,000 em- ployes would be thrown out of work. The City Council adopted a resolution severely criticizing the merger. Governor Floyd B. Olson wrote a letter to the NRA in Washington. Retorted the Brothers Ridder in their Dispatch: "The Federal Government itself has recently found it necessary to let out many thousands of employes. Many marginal concerns have been going out of business since the start of the Depression. The net result will be fewer business institutions but stronger and better ones...