Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a British journalistic feat probably never before equaled and perhaps never to be surpassed in reversing at the start the biggest news story of the Empire last week. The dispatch contained no particulars of the alleged "enthusiasm" of Indians for the Coronation and this was presumably confined to pukka sahibs in the privacy of their homes. At the Congress sessions last week the Mahatma spoke with his usual mystic benevolence...
Ships regularly smuggling opium into China are chiefly British, Japanese and Norwegian-the British being credited in one dispatch with 76 vessels, and the Japanese padding their sea smuggling with much running of opium overland from Manchukuo. In 1936 on April Fool's Day, dealing in opium was established as a Chinese Government monopoly, and about $3,500.000 per month in opium license taxes go to the Chief of the Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government...
...because she had influenza. The new King's sister, Princess Mary, suffered an attack, as did the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Last week Queen Mother Mary took sick. Observed the London Times: "Whole households are being affected and considerable dislocation of business is taking place." The Sunday Dispatch: "1,000,000 persons are down with...
...shotgun was no part of cousin Newbold's equipment and in the most positive manner he affirmed over each dispatch which he wrote and syndicated and on landing in the U.S. last week that "both the King and Mrs. Simpson have authorized this series." It was Scoop...
Managing Editor St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis...