Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Figueras, 17 miles south of the French border and 40 miles north of the advancing Rebel lines at week's end. He announced a fight to the finish and declared that fresh troops with new arms would establish a line on the Ter River. In an odd dispatch. New York Timesman H. L. Matthews stated that the French border had "opened just a little" so that war material could get to the Loyalists. There was no official indication of this in Paris. Nor was there any indication in the exhausted Loyalist Army that the orders of the civil authorities...
...impatient members of a senate judiciary committee, three individuals opposed yesterday the nomination of Professor Felix Frankfurter to the supreme court to no seeming avail. No organized opposition was evident and an early confirmation of the appointment was indicated in the day's hearings according to a United Press dispatch...
...mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting correspondents. . . . The censor cut the telephonic communication of Leland Stowe on two occasions while he was dictating his dispatch to the [New York] Herald Tribune...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet-Journalist Archibald MacLeish, whose official title is "Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...
United Press Dispatch--Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 0; Montreal 4, Detroit...