Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a newsman, famed and obscure, remembers when "C. C." was called from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1896 by the late famed Joseph Pulitzer to take the city desk of the Evening World. In the next 20 years City Editor Chapin won his nickname, "Simon Legree of Park Row." Brilliant, erratic, hardbitten, utterly ruthless, he feared no one. was feared by many, his underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies...
...Paul last fortnight U. S. District Judge John B. Sanborn punctured the defense. Said he: "The article was of value to the plaintiff from the standpoint of increasing sales of its magazine. . . . Anyone reading [the article in the Dispatch] would know what men had been selected [by Grantland Rice] and the general scheme used in their selection, and unless they were interested in Mr. Rice's lit- erary style, they would have no need for the complete article. . . . The Dispatch availed itself of the labor of Mr. Rice by appropriating the fruits of what he had done and expressed...
...silence that has cloaked with impenetrable mystery the whereabouts of Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the CRIMSON'S poor-less prognosticator of sports scores, was partially broken last night, just as the paper was going to press, when a breathless telegraph boy arrived with the following dispatch, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania...
...quiet way he made a quite thorough investigation of how to pass these things. First, he slithered up the steps of the Widow to see how matters went along there. Prying with praiseworthy dispatch, albeit with unnecessary quietude, into the files he found that the amiable Old Lady was never had one of her devotees flunk. Encouraging news, to put it mildly...
...York, Santiago and to Montevideo, giving as the reason for the petition: losses of 4,000,000 pesos. This reason was never given the Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will now fly out of Argentina and Uruguay-Pan American Grace Airways over the Andes and northward via the West Coast, and Pan American Airways northward directly up the East Coast, over the NYRBA route...