Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a stint on the Sunday Dispatch he joined the Sunday Express, in November 1930, began writing "Sitting On The Fence" for Express readers, who immediately began to lob indignant letters into the Express office. Nat Gubbins kept at it, slowly acquired his present tremendous following...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial writer Ralph Coghlan and two friends were found innocent by a Jefferson City jury of conspiring last December to steal a cannon from the grounds of Missouri's capitol. Coghlan had wanted the cannon thrown on the war scrap pile, had been balked by Governor Forrest C. Donnell. "As I was saying last December when interrupted by the Governor's silly grand larceny charge," said Editor Coghlan: "I still think the old cannon, symbol of Mr. Donnell's hair-splitting incompetency, belongs on the nation's scrap pile...
Said an A.P. dispatch last week: "[He] was fatally wounded in the torpedoing of a British naval vessel and . . . was buried at sea. . . . No other details . . . were released...
...Chicago Sun provided sleuth-minded readers with all the clues they needed. First the Sun topped Page One with a streamer: NEWS DISPATCHES or VITAL IMPORTANCE IN TOMORROW'S CHICAGO SUN. Supplementing this was a two-column box plugging the imminence of big news, and next to the box a dispatch from the Sun's London Correspondent Frederick Kuh saying: ". . . inter-Allied negotiations [now are coming] to fruition. . . ." Finally the Sun featured a Berlin radio report that Roosevelt and Churchill had met to discuss North Africa...
...jumpy Seattle Star, over the Berlin dispatch, ran a black headline...