Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active...
...point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner was this "leak" well out in London than Jewish leaders in the Empire capital brought their influence to bear. The result was last week's dispatch of enough troops to squelch the Arabs and in due time make Palestine a real "Jewish Homeland...
...impossible to get a fresh picture of Edward VIII which was not a picture of the King & Mrs. Simpson. At a moment when His Majesty was in fact making Balkan policemen, who seized press cameras, give these back to their owners (TIME, Aug. 31), the London Sunday Dispatch declared that it was not printing any such pictures and would also print no stories from the royal yachting cruise "unless these contain matter of proper national interest-such as the whereabouts of the King...
Other major newspapers which have changed type faces for the better in the past twelvemonth: Boston Herald and Traveler and Transcript; Chicago Herald & Examiner and Tribune; Detroit News; Minneapolis Star; Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch...