Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London, noted an approving dispatch in the Philadelphia Inquirer, is remarkable for the "cleanliness of the streets, sidewalks and parks." Yet, remonstrated the Inquirer's fact-primed correspondent, "the City of London performs less cleaning service per square mile and per citizen than does Philadelphia, which goes to show that all the street-cleaning service in the world is not of much help if the people continue to mess up the streets...
Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
Generally fair, but slightly biased (the first two in the Democratic direction, the rest in the Republican): Milwaukee Journal (bias mainly in front-page cartoons); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Chicago Sun-Times; Kansas City Star; Cleveland Plain Dealer; New York Herald Tribune; Portland Oregonian; Christian Science Monitor...
...Into whose "New York Post-Dispatch" office each day came "more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife...
Citation: "As the trusted friend and assistant to the President of the United States, with great courage, intelligence, and efficiency you labor without stint to bring to fruition with dispatch the domestic and foreign policies of our national government...