Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union was so serious that the most opinionated Senators and Representatives submerged their convictions in worried silence and took orders from the White House. Other Congresses had gabbled away opportunities to rescue the country but the 73rd, with a record to make, gave a legislative performance which for dispatch, efficiency and good behavior during the first week's session, placed it high in public esteem...
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...alertness and dispatch of the Columbia Broadcasting System in sending the whole nation an account of the Zangara shooting by one who witnessed it at Miami surpass even Fred W. Mizer's unnewshawkliness in failing to recount the affair as it was happening to the audience of WQAM, 1,000-watts (TIME...
...more than 300 newspapers) was suppressed for three days. With hundreds of other Opposition newspapers being suppressed and with Opposition candidates barred from the radio while every German station was compelled to broadcast Chancellor Hitler's speeches,*the Berlin Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune opened a dispatch thus: "What is manifestly the most unfair election campaign that Germany has ever seen is now taking place." ¶ The Berlin Bureau of the London Times flashed that Chancellor Hitler's henchmen "are in a position to brush aside any suggestion that their ambitions can now be thwarted from...
Most densely populated large region of Earth is Cochin, a British Indian State, according to a last week's dispatch. Cochin has 814 people to the square mile. (Rhode Island has 644.1 persons per square mile, Nevada...