Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the complicated life of Hunter Wright now intruded the Press. Covering the lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...
...Then I signalled the boat. We decided to take the lions with us. . . . We headed north, away from Commerce, and put in at Thebes, Ill. From there I telephoned the story. . . . Three hours later we returned to Commerce with the lions. The Post-Dispatch and the A. P. were scooped by three editions...
What spiteful Zeus put into Pandora's famed box caused scarcely more confusion among the Greeks than occurred in all King George's capitals last week when all the King's Premiers opened their dispatch boxes on the same day and let out all the secret schedules of the twelve bilateral tariff agreements signed among all His Majesty's governments with nine bright red pens at the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference (TIME...
...newspaper readers were indignant last week at a cable dispatch from England. To the Manchester Guardian a correspondent had addressed himself as follows...
...there were 44 students; next autumn 55 are expected. Commonwealth has no commencements, degrees, examinations or roll-calls. Instructors?who include William Cunningham, onetime reporter on the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Arkansas Lawyer Clay Fulks; B. J. Ostrow. one-time cinema critic for the Union City (N. J.) Hudson Dispatch; and Marion Hille. onetime New York show girl?receive no pay, work along with the students...