Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied distrust. New York's Liberal Party, whose 329,235 Term IV votes made possible a 316,591 Roosevelt majority in the State of New York, sent a strong protest to the President on the general course of the nation's diplomatic drifting. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which boomed Term IV summed up: "Surely the time has come for a fresh laying of the cards on the table. Surely the time has come for a new statement of war aims to reassure a world that is now perplexed and bewildered...
...second wife, Lorelle McCarver Hearst-one of Father Hearst's most favored war correspondents. His copy, lavishly displayed in Hearstpapers, is edited only by Father Hearst himself. Last week Hearst-reading students of syntax puzzled over this Junior-written and presumably Senior-edited passage in a cabled dispatch from London...
...directly adjoining column appeared an A.P. dispatch from Beverly Hills, Calif, which began: "General Henry H. Arnold says he hates to hear stories that German defenses are crumbling. 'I'd like to know where they're crumbling,' the Army Air Forces commanding general said at a press conference...
Fortnight ago, this far-famed World War II legend-with-a-happy-ending popped up again, with embellishments. From St. Joseph, Mo., the U.S. Army's Stars & Stripes picked up a news dispatch which solemnly described a scene in a bakery. This time, the overdressed woman said: "I hope the war lasts a while longer so we can pay off our mortgage." Said a patriotic woman bystander to the clerk: "Forget the cake. Give me a lemon-meringue pie and don't wrap it." Then...
Avid followers of "The Indian News" are sometimes disappointed when Charlie's dispatch is limited to "Not much news this week. Indian report in jail." But their fidelity is rewarded when, under the spell of a hangover, Charlie dips his blunt pencil into vitriol to discuss the Indian and the white man. Sample: "Indian scalp his enemy, but now the white people, he skin his friends. That he called Business...