Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the headlines scream KIDNAPED, St. Louis has learned to wonder at once whether it will be the worthy Post-Dispatch or the noisy Star that ultimately takes credit for solving the case. Last January it was the Star's Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge who brought about the capture of the kidnapers of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 12). Last May it was the Post-Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength...
...background, 15 per cent.; personal appearance, 15 per cent.; personality, 10 per cent.; courtesy, 10 per cent.; sense of humor, 10 per cent.; physical fitness, 5 per cent.; clear understanding of the word "no", 5 per cent.; social poise, 5 per cent.; dancing ability, 5 per cent. United Press Dispatch...
...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared the following advertisement...
...extorted them by having her threatened with imprisonment for perjury because of a technical flaw in her marriage license. The Citizen dug up the story, opened fire on Judge Bostwick. circulated a petition, brought him to trial. The judge's ally, Publisher Harry Preston Wolfe's Columbus Dispatch, accused the Citizen of blackmail, gave battle by slashing its price from 2? to 1? (TIME...
...press dispatch from abroad gives another instance of the prevailing simplicity and sincerity of the German people as shown in their choice of a national war memorial. Near Weimar, the geographical center of the German nation, a great grove of the sort that is peculiarly the pride of Germany has been agreed upon by all the states for this purpose. From this tract, typically primitive yet orderly as German forests are, landscape architects are to carve out a monument more expressive of the German spirit than all the fine phrases of conventional inscriptions on polished stone. Taking nothing for granted...