Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Essary's prize-winning article, published March 5, 1931, was cited for "reportorial skill and industry in bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...
...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared this advertisement: "Anyone interested in adopting a baby at birth around October ist. write Box 497, care Ledger-Dispatch...
...have to because Washington is Federal territory). President Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to call out the Army from Fort Myer in nearby Virginia. Secretary Hurley passed the command along to handsome, well-tailored General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, in the following crisp dispatch...
...London this Havas dispatch so excited Prime Minister MacDonald that he called Premier Herriot on the trans-Channel telephone and begged him to retract...
Scot MacDonald's excitement was due, of course, to his realization of the effect which the Havas dispatch would and did quickly produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee...