Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginia Beach was ripped and torn apart by the surf. With its power turbines under water Norfolk was left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake...
From Berlin, fortnight ago, famed Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times cabled a dispatch which the Soviet censors would scarcely have passed: "Except in the largest cities and the most important industrial centres the food supply has been reduced below what are generally regarded as the minimum requirements, and even in the favored localities there has been much distress. The almost inevitable consequence has been an increased death rate from such maladies as typhus, dysentery, dropsy and various infantile disorders...
Infrequently of late has Spain, which used to dispatch musicians to the U. S. in a steady stream, sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement...
...that May day on which Secretary Hull, as chairman of the U. S. Delegation, sailed away so hopefully for London. Then as an internationalist he was about to have his innings. But the President's long-range handling of the Conference, his refusal to consider currency stabilization, his dispatch of Assistant Secretary of State Moley to London all combined to lacerate Secretary Hull's feelings and start reports of his resignation. The Conference had failed and the President's nationalist policy had struck...
...Governor Pollard: For God's sake keep your face out of the Times-Dispatch. You look worse than the devil. "Yours truly, "C. W. Williams...