Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days after the bombing of Formosa, Associated Press flashed from Hankow, where Chinese Government censors handle every dispatch, the news that Secretary General of Aviation, Mme Chiang, "is authoritatively understood to be relinquishing the position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...
Paul Y. Anderson has not yet found time for a belated honeymoon. Fired six weeks ago from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TIME, Jan. 31), Paul Anderson this week went to work as a Washington correspondent for his old paper's aggressive rival, the St. Louis Star-Times. In his new job Correspondent Anderson can expect to do more work at less pay than the $16,000 the Post-Dispatch paid him, but in return he will be able to write all the liberal, pro-New Deal pieces he wants, will find his work highly ballyhooed. While...
...Joseph Pulitzer, son of the late Prize-founding Joseph Pulitzer, is publisher of the Post Dispatch...
...Special Dispatch To The Crimson...
Besides the main events, visitors watched an exhibition of sheepherding by three Border collies, trained by Luke Pasco, who, blind from five to ten, was led about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...