Word: dispatches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dust-dry little dispatch out of the U.S. Court of Claims last week almost legally proved that Franklin Roosevelt once made a mistake-a thing he has only once publicly admitted (TIME, June...
...Virginia the Richmond Times-Dispatch began a poll on the question: "Shall the United States enter a shooting war against Germany now?" Early returns: Yes (for war) 450 or 45%; No (against...
...Louis Post-Dispatch named other "sandbag" operations...
...tall, huge-nosed Huguenot, Peter Portal has always been a driving man. His first hobby was speed on two wheels, and his first job in World War I was as a motorcycle dispatch rider. He still bears a scar over his left eye because one night he ran his motorcycle right into the back of a truck. Later he took up flying, which was faster. His promotions in the R.A.F. were rapid...
...officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought in from outside...