Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still be alive, as a result of a bargain or for some other reason. . . . The Soviet State does not deliver up the bodies of the men and women it executes. . . . There is not even habeas cadaver and of course no habeas corpus in the Soviet Union." In a dispatch from Moscow not long ago the rumor that Soviet scientists had invented a gas with the special property of deranging the mentality of a prisoner so as to make him speak and behave for some hours afterward as hypnotically required by Justice, was cautiously mentioned, the writer being still employed...
...they happened to be popular with the electorate. Popular with part of the electorate are consumer co-operatives but there the retailers draw the line. The idea of private property without profit has given them the jitters, particularly since the New Deal took enough interest in co-operatives to dispatch a commission to Europe to study them in their lushest environment (TIME, July 13). Treading close to the line of downright condemnation, Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, head of the potent American Retail Federation and onetime city manager of Cincinnati, told the convention last week that the only thing the merchant...
Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...
...this dispatch calmly in a Madrid which continued to be battered, bombed and shelled last week, and then to get it past a suspicious Spanish censor was objective U. S. journalism at its best and bravest. The two biggest lies of the week were told respectively by the opposed Spanish leaders...
...Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon follow in rich procession, dipping down into the synagogue itself from time to time until the night is over and the congregation is spared slaughter but is exiled and sent once more on the Jews' eternal road...