Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 200 A.F. of L. newspaper carriers went on strike last week, 816,048 St. Louisians went without their local newspapers. Readers of the Post-Dispatch, the Globe-Democrat and the Star-Times could get their surrender news by radio, from out-of-town papers, or do without...
Friday morning he was up early as usual, and was about to leave his rooms on the second floor of the White House when a War Department messenger arrived with a radio dispatch. The President took the piece of paper and read...
There, broken in midsentence, it ended. It was unofficial: a Domei dispatch broadcast by Radio Tokyo at 7:35 a.m. (Truman time), picked up by listening monitors on the Pacific Coast, and teletyped to Washington. It was nothing that a President could formally discuss with his Allies, or reply to. But a man could talk about it. The President wanted to talk to somebody, and he immediately summoned four men: Admiral Leahy and Secretaries Byrnes. Stimson, Forrestal...
...Post Dispatch, Laybourne today is the fulltime head of our office in the Dominion capital. But he knows every province in Canada firsthand-is as likely to be found somewhere in the Maritimes or way out on Vancouver Island...
Military Objective. In Dunn, N.C., the Dispatch received an ad: "Young soldier with four and a half years of duty would like to meet a young widow with three children. Object: 85 points...