Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the transportation had been completed . . . on July 14, which would have left a margin of only a little over two weeks. We also had had word that each train would take two days to cross Sweden and on that schedule it would take more than two weeks to dispatch "hundreds" of trains on single track lines (Sweden has no doubles), allowing also for ordinary traffic...
Trojan Whores. A Russian dispatch from the front last week said that the Germans, unable to force a crossing of an unnamed river, brought up a large number of prostitutes from Hamburg, undressed them, sent them wading in the river opposite the strongest Russian defenses. Simultaneously, the story went, the Germans tried a crossing at another place. The strong Red Army men, said the dispatch, "were not fooled...
...departments without pooling the editorial independence of the papers. A success, the idea has since been adopted by a dozen other rival papers -the Madison Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times, the El Paso Times and Herald Post, the Nashville Banner and Tennessean, the Richmond. (Va.) Times-Dispatch and News Leader, the Tulsa Tribune and World...
Last week death broke one of the remaining links between the late great Joseph Pulitzer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dead from a stroke was 83-year-old George Sibley Johns, one of the great ancients of journalism, whose busiest years ended in 1930 when he became editor emeritus of the Post-Dispatch after 48 years as a newspaperman...
Died. George Sibley Johns, 83, head of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from...