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Word: dispatches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field commander, Viscount Gort. The King was accompanied by his brother H. R. H. Major General the Duke of Gloucester, who is Lord Gort's chief liaison officer; also Equerry Piers Legh, Private Secretary Sir Alexander Hardinge, a Scotland Yardsman carrying the royal gas mask and red dispatch case. Lord Gort spent the next few days arduously escorting his sovereign house guest hither & yon through the lines for His Majesty's quick edification and for the pepping-up, which was real and welcome, of His Majesty's armed forces. It was planned that every Tommy should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Speakers at the Nieman dinners this year have been Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Archibald MacLeizh, Librarian of Congress; Ralph MacA. Ingorsoll, former general manager of Time, Inc.; Joseph Pulitzer, '06, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Is New Cry of Journalism Foundation Here | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...tried to believe that this war is a moral crusade, to be followed by the construction of a better Europe--if the Allies win. He has tried, in spite of his logic, his common sense, and his knowledge of history. But the facts, and especially this early dispatch from Paris, have proved disillusioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Next day, when correspondents gathered in the Propaganda Ministry for their regular morning conference, there was hell to pay. Blond, youthful Dr. Karl Bomer, head of the press department, grimly read passages from Newsman Conger's dispatch, exclaiming: "Lies! . . . Scoundrelly reporting! ... False to the last syllable!" Added another propaganda official: "It's worse than a lost battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Host Angered | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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