Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fascists' Abortion. U.P.'s Rome Bureau Chief, rotund Reynolds Packard, in his first dispatch from Portugal, reported an abortive attempt by extreme pro-German Fascists to kidnap Mussolini and "elimi-nate" his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano. The Fascist regime, said Packard, is split by one group demanding closer collaboration with Germany and Vichyfrance and another fearful that the closer Italy works with both the slimmer are the chances of Italy's claims on French Tunisia, Djibouti, Savoy and Nice...
...year ago. St. Louis groaned; it had trounced the machine for giving it some of the worst circuit judges in history, for conniving in the State Democratic organization's attempt to steal the Governorship (TIME, March 23); it wanted no more of Hannegan & Co. Snapped the Post-Dispatch: "The President's action is an affront to thousands of citizens...
...Chicago Daily News last week reported news of this new U.S. air front. In a dispatch datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
Voters, hopping mad, can hardly wait for the Nov. 3 election to turn the rascals out. But well aware is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the able press guardians of Missouri morals, that Judgment Day does not fall on Nov. 3. Last week, with a two-page editorial spread, it began a campaign to memorialize two other dates: June 5, last day for candidates to file; Aug. 4, the primary...
Said the Post-Dispatch...