Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chestertown Chamber of Commerce meets in one of the few air-conditioned rooms in town, a large, nicely furnished place on the second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburban homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid luxuriousness of life here in Kent County...
Died. Leon George Roth, 67, part-time janitor for Cincinnati's Whittier elementary school and the U.S. Army private who on Nov.11, 1918 carried the surrender message that ended World War I; of a stroke; in Springfield, Ohio. As Motorcycle Dispatch Carrier Roth stood shivering in the cold near the railroad car where German and Allied officials had been secretly negotiating the armistice, a captain approached at 5:15 a.m. with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must...
...religion was founded in 1857, and in April, 1863, Baha'u'llah announced to his followers that God had commissioned him to unite all the nations, races, and religions of the world. He then dispatch...
...began with a Moscow dispatch by Giuseppe Boffa. correspondent for Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unitá, which soberly described Soviet troubles in domestic and foreign affairs and at one point permitted itself the flat assertion that "Moscow is living through a delicate and interesting political moment." Rome's volatile press erupted with screaming headlines predicting Nikita's imminent downfall. Big papers in New York, London and Paris gave way to similar speculation...
...time of this dispatch, results from British Columbia were sparse. Liberals had been elected in three ridings and were leading in five, Conservatives had been elected in three, leading in nine; Social Credit was leading in one; and the N.D.P. had taken six seats, leading in four...