Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Tribune's Chesly Manly in a dispatch from Washington: "The argument most frequently advanced in support of Schroeder is that control of the party must be removed from the Eastern financial interests. Another argument is that Schroeder would be acceptable to all elements of the party with the exception of the Willkieites. Wendell Willkie is opposed to Schroeder on the ground that he was a pre-war noninterventionist...
Little inconsistencies such as Gable's being a reporter who is never shown writing a story--he does dictate one at the end, which sounds more like an oration than a battlefront dispatch--go by the boards, and nobody much cares. It's really a better-than-average plot, and the mustached hero is his usual charming self. Miss Turner's bodily presence in an assortment of gay dresses and one bath towel is enough to bring the spectators in droves. She isn't too bad an actress, either. Robert Sterling, as the kid brother, is fair enough. The film...
...proposal: the London Times, Manchester Guardian, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and one more to be named by the reader...
...could the nation's press take claim for much astute reporting. It, too, completely failed to gauge the breadth of Republican sentiment. One reporter who had sensed the trend was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able, amiable Irving Dilliard, who, in the New Republic on Sept. 7 set down a multitude of reasons for possible big Republican gains. Some of them: dissatisfaction with the military, failure to come to grips with inflation, politics as usual, "feather bed" regulations for labor, bungling censorship, Congress' descending reputation...
This may be my last dispatch from Guadalcanal. I can't write any more. Too damn exhausted to think...