Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Budget Day is a solemn, expectant occasion in the House of Commons. At 3:35 p.m., Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler stepped up to the dispatch box and opened the battered, red leather case in which every British Chancellor since Gladstone has carried the British budget. He was greeted with Tory cheers, for with a general election a month away (May 26), they had hopes of good electioneering news...
Eden stepped up to the dispatch box, flushed but serene. His first thought was for his old master, and he moved the House, as he rarely does, when he spoke of "my Right Honorable friend's courage," his magnanimity, his humor, and his "passion for the political life." "I enjoyed very much the Melbourne reflections," Eden added. "[Mr. Attlee] will not, however, have forgotten that Melbourne, although always talking of leaving office, contrived to stay there for a very long time indeed...
...rambling, richly decorated home outside St. Louis, a ruptured abdominal blood vessel unexpectedly struck down Joseph Pulitzer II, 70, son and namesake of the founder of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 387,398) and the former New York World. Twenty-seven hours later, at Wheaton, Ill., in the splendor of his 35-room Georgian mansion, death after a two-year illness came to Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, boss of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 892,058) and nominal boss of its Manhattan cousin, the Daily News (circ...
Superficially, the character of the two papers was as different as dailies can be. The right-wing, isolationist Tribune viewed the New Dealing Post-Dispatch as a political enemy. But actually, the journalistic ingredients they had in common were more important than those that set them apart. Both the Tribune and the P-D-each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt...
Died. Joseph Pulitzer, 70, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; of a ruptured abdominal blood vessel; in St. Louis (see PRESS...