Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, in the New York Times, Bosley Crowther, who also knows what he's talking about, says of "King's Row"--"utterly depressing and artistically sour" and then says of the other, that it is a film "which knows where it is going and goes there with clarity and dispatch." If these good gentlemen can be at variance to such a degree, it surely points up the moral that both dramatic and movie criticism today need a lot of redefinition, some standards of excellence and a more objective viewpoint...
Meanwhile the German transocean news agency announced in a Berlin dispatch that Spains Generalissimo Francisco Franco, accompanied by Spanish Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, was expected to leave Madrid Wednesday for Seveille to meet President Antonio Oscar de Fragose Carmnoa and Premier Antino de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal...
...page facing this dispatch the Herald Tribune printed, as luck would have it, a picture of Minister to Bulgaria George H. Earle 3d and a dog arriving by clipper at LaGuardia Field...
...first battle of Libya, there was singularly little coordination of command be tween air, army and naval forces. More recently, in the Far East, the British lack of unified command was demonstrated when the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, cruising without air cover, were sunk with terrifying dispatch...
...station operating, as far as the correspondents could learn, was a tiny portable transmitter which belonged to a British diplomat. This was in use 24 hours a day pounding out messages asking for reinforcements from Greece, but finally the correspondents persuaded the operator to send a single 100-word dispatch signed with all their names...