Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dusty trucks, with drivers' rifles in holsters alongside the steering wheels, rumbled along rocky roads and through field and wood without traffic tie-ups. Supply functioned without a major hitch. Motorcycle dispatch riders, powdered with dust that turned their blue denim white, clattered into well-hidden command posts with battle messages that got prompt handling. In forward areas, tireless doughboys, in superb physical condition, moved forward, retired, swung down the roadsides with a minimum of stragglers...
...delivered his lecture at a press conference when he was asked about the truth of a U.P. dispatch reporting that a division of Marines and one of infantry had been given equipment priorities to groom them as a potential A.E.F. "task force"-for action overseas...
...Louis newsmen agreed that the Star-Times would not soon see Taylor's like again. He had built the Star-Times from the anemic 30,000 circulation of the old Star to its present 167,400, made it a lusty rival of the powerful Post-Dispatch, and in doing so had become a newspaper legend. Managing editor since 1914, he made his reputation in the early '20s, when he exposed the notorious Hogan gang, the Egan Rats, the bloody Italian gang called the Green Ones...
...reporter-training was "Get 'em young and work hell out of 'em." His main difficulty was keeping reporters, on the budget that Publisher Roberts allowed him. He had no sooner got reporters trained than they were hired away for a few dollars more by the Post-Dispatch. He made reporters out of copy boys, sometimes had to send out kids to compete against the Post-Dispatch's crack reporters. To one reporter he yelled: "Shut up, or I'll throw you out the window." But he liked those who stood up to him, reneged on firing...
When Editor Taylor's retirement was announced, his bitter rival, Editor Ben Reese of the Post-Dispatch, was the first to telephone his congratulations on a magnificent record. He concluded: "I can't say that I'm sorry to see you quit, however. So far as the Post-Dispatch is concerned you've been Public Enemy...