Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advised the government to relax credit to give industry a badly needed impetus, expend more ECA counterpart funds on public works to reduce unemployment. The government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president of a Portland, Ore. super market, held a press conference in which he called the Italian government policy "too damn cautious...
...groups," the paper's review wrote, of the selections in the new recording of the Ivy League album, "are played with dispatch and excellence ... it has been axiomatic that if Harvard's football team could match the Band's performance, the Cantabs would be playing in the Rose Bowl...
...last August, a spry, 78-year-old Wetumka, Okla. farmer named J. M. Carter excitedly handed a copy of a local newspaper to his wife Martha Ellen. Their son, 19-year-old Pfc. James Madison Carter, said a news dispatch from Korea, had been decorated with the Silver Star, for helping to destroy an enemy tank. He had also been wounded in the action. Proud, worried, but in a way relieved in knowing that he would be out of danger in a hospital, they wrote asking him for details. This month their letters began coming back stamped: "Deceased-verified...
President Allen acted with dispatch. He impounded the 852 negatives, locked them up and suspended all photographing. But he was not in time to silence the howls. Newspapers picked up the story, splashed it into headlines (NUDE POSING OF COEDS RISES STORM . . .). To a good many readers, the whole affair sounded like some sort of campus peep show...
...Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays at the front most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...