Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scott Co. which had furnished the Minneapolis Star and Erie Dispatch-Herald with three-color units capable of running at full speed; R. Hoe & Co. (TIME, May 2) which furnished the Seattle Times with two-color units; and Claybourn Co. which gave to the Pittsburgh Press what Mr. Wood promised the Chicago Tribune, only at half the speed...
...gold medal to the Indianapolis (Ind.) News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year...
...attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...
...about 100 childbirths produces twins, one in 10,000 triplets, one in a million quadruplets. There are authentic records of several multiparities of five, but only five credible instances of six children being born in one pregnancy, and only one acceptable record of seven. Hence last week's dispatch from Porto Alegre, Brazil was well-nigh incredible: one Espinosa Nunez de Antunes of Bacacay had been delivered of eight daughters, two sons. All ten died at birth...
...Speaker Garner were actively directing an organization working nationally in his behalf, he would probably do a workmanlike job of it, for he has a direct way of going at problems that makes for speed, dispatch, and thoroughness. He is not doing so. He is contented where he is, although needless to say, he will be a receptive dark horse. It is not likely, however, on the strength of his record, that he will make concessions to win the nomination...