Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Budapest to the New York Times last week flashed the following dispatch concerning a Miss Myrtle Hague Robinson, U. S. journalist touring Rumania...
...ballyhooed, expensive Republican convention starts revolving on its well greased axis. There will be little to disturb the placld sequence of oratory, credentials, temporary officers, resolutions, and the form of nomination; party managers with an eye to lean purses have seen to that. Every effort will be made to dispatch the weary business and send the local delegates a homing by Thursday at the latest...
...failed to include the powerful shipping lobby that has obtained for its members millions upon millions of dollars under the guise of "mail contracts." Huge amounts are so paid in many cases for the alleged carriage of mails over steamship routes which could not possibly be utilized in the dispatch of anything but the bulkiest freight...
...present, only dapper little Roy Howard (Scripps-Howard) and Harry Preston Wolfe of the Columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch failed to lift an arm. Scripps-Howard chainpapers had vigorously cudgeled the issue when it was before Congress in March. Final agreement of the publishers, however, was that they would support a Sales Tax if the President would personally sponsor...
...Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated face. After they clambered back on board, Captain Fried abandoned the lifeboat, pointed his ship toward Manhattan, wrote a signed dispatch for the Associated Press...