Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times, doors and windows were locked & barred. The Times reported that Mrs. Czinkota had been observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported Mrs. Czinkota's neighbors believed her to have mixed magic brews while mysterious...
Last week's weirdest newspaper story was an Associated Press dispatch from the small town of Woodbridge, N. J., 24 miles from Manhattan. The A. P.'s 1,350 members were informed by wire that one Theresa Czinkota had been publicly accused of witchcraft by five of her neighbors in the town's Hungarian section. In rich detail the A. P. told how spying neighbors described to a Police Recorder what they had seen through the windows of Mrs. Czinkota's home...
...Although Missouri, like Maryland, is considered by most observers likely to go Democratic, last week Joseph Pulitzer's old paper, the liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Wilson in 1916, Cox in 1920, Davis in 1924, Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932, announced that in 1936 it will oppose the re-election of Roosevelt. Reason: It opposes a government "with vast and centralized authority over the economic life of the nation...
...closing in all around and only some 30 miles away as the week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents of Premier Largo Caballero, a courier...
...fortnight 32 minor Election Board officials were under indictment for fraud, wilful neglect of duty. Censured but not indicted were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis Election Board for the "betterment of the public service," appointed a new board...