Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOUIS POST-DISPATCH...
...were open. So far as any outsider could tell, many Iraqis welcomed the coup and almost all accepted it. Yet it was only a handful of plotters who changed the history of Iraq. Later intelligence suggests that they acted earlier than they had intended, worried by Nuri's dispatch of one of the crucial colonels to Jordan...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...
...Moreover, in the Soviet view, their mobilization and dispatch of ground forces would be much less critically disrupted than would ours by the nuclear exchange, due to their larger force-in-being and to its deployment. The surviving Soviet land armies are thus expected to be capable of defeating the proportionately weakened enemy forces on the ground...
...Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs...