Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Ambassador Dr. Edmund Baron von Thermann hastily announced the dispatch of two confidential aides to Misiones "for the purpose of conducting an investigation" into "alleged Nazi activities and highhanded police methods against peaceful German residents." On arrival, the Germans stirred up jurisdictional disputes between national and local police...
...certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch reporting that heavy explosions, believed to be caused by shells, not bombs, had occurred on the southeast coast-presumably the work of Nazi guns across the Channel...
Selection of a new Premier is usually a long, mysterious, behind-the-scenes intrigue, but last week the choice was made with curious dispatch. Immediately upon receiving Admiral Yonai's resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period...
...explosions came from St. Louis, where the $257,000,000 Union Electric Co., one of its crack subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased...
...Tate was shouted down at this point by the House, concluded her remarks in the Sunday Dispatch: "In no conceivable circumstances should members be allowed for any personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...