Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rothermere, brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, challenged by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to declare himself either for or against the Conservative Party, replied last week by coming out in The Weekly Dispatch in favor of ex-Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Thus has the great British newspaper magnate shifted his support from the Conservative to the Liberal Party...
Following the dispatch of the message, which read, "Offer services of airplane and pilot for flood relief," Crocker Snow 2L., licensed pilot of the club, took a reconnoitering flight on Saturday afternoon over the flooded areas of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, accompanied by E. W. Wood '29 and F. P. Sproul '29, who also hold State licenses as pilots...
...green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
...York newspaper capital reached out and acquired the St. Paul Dispatch and the Pioneer Press, which St. Paul reads mornings. Three brothers Ridder and Leo E. Owens, publishers of the Journal of Commerce, Manhattan, the New York Staats-Zeitung Herald (German daily) and the Jamaica (L. I.) Press are the new owners. They announce no change of policy in St. Paul. The St. Paul News is the other daily newspaper of that city. Minneapolis, rival city across the Mississippi River, has the Daily Star, Tribune and Journal...
...lecture tour during which he would wear only prison garb and would denounce British prison methods "from every platform in the land"; 2) the founding of a newspaper, "for which my backers have ready £100,000, gentlemen." 3) publication (which subsequently took place last week in the London Dispatch) of an entire front-page story of his wrongs, plus an entire back page of pictures showing him plump before he went to jail and cadaverous today...