Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied for seats at the trial. In the little room under the roof, Western Union set up 75 sending machines, Postal 50, a battery calculated to dispatch 1,000,000 words a day on the case. Sheriff John H. Curtiss (who added the second "s" to his name after the exposure of Boat-Builder John H. Curtis) good-naturedly turned over his private office to two news services...
Between hotel rooms and War Department shuttled the General's plump aide, Capt. Thomas J. Davis, carrying a bulky dispatch case. Seven times in four hours he puffed back & forth. With each round trip one of General MacArthur's seven charges was wiped from the complaint. Then final terms were secretly signed...
...Government to send troops across the Channel to enforce order during the Saar plebiscite Jan. 13. Not only has the House of Commons been assured time & again by Foreign Minister Sir John Simon that no troops would be sent, but the entire British Press has been clamoring against the dispatch of a single Tommy overseas. Last week England, the inexplicable, the illogical and the impulsive, proved herself England once again...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop-off for South Atlantic aviation. If wholesale vaccination is possible, whole populations can be protected against yellow fever as simply and thoroughly as they now are protected against smallpox. And communities will not be encumbered by the expensive necessity of eradicating yellow fever mosquitoes...
...Special Dispatch to the CRIMSON...