Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond...
...mind that she can, if necessary, write letters, articles, speeches for him. A feature of the Assistant Secretary's office routine is what he calls "the children's hour between the dark and the daylight'' when his staff assembles at his desk to dispatch departmental business before going home. Dr. Moley lives with Mr. Mullen at the Carlton Hotel, three squares from his office. He drives a sleek new Packard roadster. He takes no exercise, plays no golf, says: "I know of no scientific proof that all work and no play makes Jack a dull...
Through a "reputable professional man," the vigilant St. Louis Post-Dispatch got hold of a letter which indicated that Tax Reviewer Throop had taken bribes to scale down assessments for certain East St. Louis manufacturers. Docile Mr. Throop, while denying the authenticity of the letter, consented at once to accompany a reporter to Springfield, where he resigned his office and confessed all to the Attorney General. Only the case of the local Elks' Club, whose tax assessment was lowered from $5,000 to $200, was made public. Investigation of others was promptly instituted...
...were trying to kill each other 15 years ago, and speaking for 13,000,000 who had killed each other, they came to save our children and our civilization' from danger of the 'return to barbarism' they saw looming." so a New York Times dispatch described this very significant meeting in Geneva on March 19, 1933. These men who had seen and felt the horrors of war were not willing to have their descendants endure the same experiences. "Peace, peace at any price, peace by every means, a peace above all" was the slogan of the conference, as expressed...
President Roosevelt, having served the banking situation with dispatch, concerns himself in the current Tennessee Valley project with matters quite as vast, but far less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...