Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis family, a Marine Corps sergeant in World War I, he was the popular boss of St. Louis' powerful, smooth-functioning Democratic machine. He took his job seriously. He had pushed through the ordinance that had at last solved St. Louis' smoke problem. Scandals (like the Post-Dispatch exposé of 46,000 fraudulent registrations) had been lived down; splits had been sewed up. And Mayor Dickmann seemed much more like a reform mayor than a machine-made candidate...
...Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the strategy by which Missouri's Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot...
Boss Dickmann shook his head, blamed it on the Willkie "backwash" that had got Republicans so stirred up that they could not stop. But the Post-Dispatch saw a defeat for the Machine-the Machine that had registered voters who did not exist, had received payment for public service that it did not perform, and finally had tried to seat in the Governor's chair a man who had not been elected...
...collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when you become one of us. I expect to die myself this time. How about you?" "I am willing...
...native-born U. S. citizen, an old-fashioned radical, 56-year-old Robert Minor. A Texan, a carpenter in his early days, Communist Minor has had a long career of Bolshevik activity. As a young man he took up cartooning and landed a job on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1916 he became publicity director for the defense of Tom Mooney. When the U. S. entered World War I, he went to Europe as a war correspondent, there met and talked to Lenin. One day, after the Armistice, Bob Minor was put under arrest, condemned to be shot...