Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Rome last month New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews telephoned a long dispatch telling of drastic rationing, public and financial distress (TIME, Oct. 20). The dispatch was heavily censored in eight places. "In each case," said the Times next day. "the effect was unwittingly to emphasize the consternation caused by the Government's orders...
Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise...
...managing editor of the St. Louis Star-Times. Ranking high among top-flight U.S. editors, Frank Taylor brings to Marshall Field's paper his invaluable 27-year experience in fighting a tough, richer rival. (When he quit the Star-Times four months ago, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch respectfully acknowledged him "Enemy...
...serves, and to handle drunk and disorderly service men with some degree of tact. In addition to his World War I job of sniffing out spies and saboteurs, he now has to turn out for riot duty and plant protection, which means tossing out defense strikers with neatness and dispatch. He is charged with safeguarding Army property, trained to man age traffic, both civilian and military. To keep him in fettle, he is drilled in wrestling, boxing and jujitsu, is supposed to be as well versed in the amenities as a headwaiter...
...Field Marshal Lord Milne, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926-33, wrote an article for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in which he said: "To those who are desirous of action and demanding a new front for attack, I would suggest that the opportunity for action is approaching. . . . The Russian-Persian line is our invasion front and we must invade with all the power we have...