Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long before the greying, balding boys of the Legion assemble for their yearly carnival, The Kingmakers settle policy, pick a National Commander to explain and defend their policy. Last week in Los Angeles, where 130,000 Legionnaires went to drink and frolic this year, The Kingmakers worked with extraordinary dispatch, got their work done before the convention convened, averted the floor fights which usually attend their nominating maneuvers...
...Other famed old boys: Episcopalian Bishop Ernest Stires of Long Island; Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; R. Walton Moore, Counselor of the Department of State; John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader...
...border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio...
Many a foreign news dispatch to the U. S. is about one-tenth fact and nine-tenths rumor and conjecture. Working in a murky subterranean world of censorship, rumor-mongering and diplomatic duplicity, an honest reporter must search every shovelful of rumor for the nugget of fact, assay each fact for the elusive motive that gives it value. On the basis of a single such fact, not necessarily important in itself, an impressive and vaguely portentous flow of dispatches can be written from the capitals of Europe, recounting rumored reactions and reactions to reactions...
...twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...