Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Blow. Fifty-eight-year-old Admiral Ghormley laid out the whole show. He did it with the approval and the help of his superior, Admiral Chester William Nimitz of Pearl Harbor, command hero of Midway, who had the disposal of the whole Pacific Fleet and was able to dispatch the force that mixed up the Jap in Kiska...
Last week United Fruit Co. announced banana priorities for all celiaca victims, advised parents to write or wire the Fruit Dispatch Co., Pier 3 of Manhattan's North River...
...leave from the front, Maiya Sloboda, an army lieutenant in command of 100 men, looked more like a boy than an 18-year-old girl, in their olive-grey uniform with dispatch case hooked on the shoulder. In the case she carried pictures of her friends and family. In her heart she carried a hate undimmed by having shot, to her certain knowledge, 28 Germans in the past year. She paced the floor, her brown eyes shining, her hands moving restlessly through heavy black hair which she herself had bobbed. "I am nervous, yes," she said to a U.S. correspondent...
Representative Harold Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...
TIME'S Correspondent Walter Graebner, after a trip up the Volga into Russia, filed the following dispatch...