Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa last week the Italian radio station passed correspondents' dispatches conveying the bad news that Ethiopian peasants are sowing practically no grain or coffee, "because they fear it will be confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians...
...speech to his onetime fellow townsmen was Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox of Chicago. It was in Manchester that Frank Knox gained newspaper fame as publisher of the Manchester Union and Leader which he still owns. While he was there last week his papers carried the saddest dispatch they had ever printed. In Boston 55 miles away a Federal District Court ordered the immediate liquidation of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., biggest cotton textile mill in the U. S. and Manchester's principal industry...
...days ago the palace sentries broke up a game between H. R. H. Prince Tomislav inside the royal iron fence and Belgrade street urchins outside. Object of the game was to see who could spit farthest. According to a Belgrade dispatch last week some Orthodox priests have asked pious Serbs when praying for good King Peter to add "and may God be kind to his naughty brother...
...when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond Brandt asked whether the President had read an article in the current Saturday Evening Post praising Charles Michelson's astuteness, the President cocked an interested eye at the Democratic pressagent seated nearby...
Gratefully remembering the opportune gift of $2,000 from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America which had tided the Guild over a bad financial time last winter, saturnine Assistant Sunday Editor Julius Klyman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch urged the Guildmen to endorse Lewis' committee for Industrial Organization (TIME, Feb. 10) instead of the American Federation, which he believed to be "a crumbling institution which may not survive another six months...