Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrister for The People then flung his sharpest harpoon. Had Randolph even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...
...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
Just as the opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
Whispers. Other papers were bolder. One dovetailed a story about "startling" but undisclosed evidence in the case of "25 deaths" at Eastbourne with another dispatch covering the doctor's testimony at the inquest where one of his patients was found to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many...