Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000 and enough clerical help to dispatch nearly 47,000 pieces of first-class mail...
...media. Thus you reported in the Sept. 20 issue that "the Buddhist rebellion was directed by monks who were also consummate politicians, who were less interested in redressing religious injustices than in overthrowing the Diem regime." Father O'Connor reached somewhat the same conclusion in an Aug. 2 dispatch...
Moving with uncommon dispatch, the 88th Congress last week...
...Apologies. As the argument about the reporting from Viet Nam continued, the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar, which serves as an unofficial Saigon press club, began to fill up with unfamiliar faces. The visiting observers found resident newsmen in a fighting mood, quick to defend their every dispatch. U.S. officials have constantly lied to them, they said, and the U.S. embassy has shunned them for years. They play up gripes from junior officers in the field but consider General Paul Harkins, Commander of the U.S. Forces in South Viet Nam, too evasive for his statements to be taken...
...Valley. Special interest pages on schools, youth and clubs were added. The composing room got the lead out, changed the body type and headline style. The paper fairly dripped with zeal. Says one ex-staffer: "It was like being in on the early days of Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, TIME or The New Yorker. We all felt that we were part of a mission." The pages blossomed with news from the Star-Tribune's Washington bureau; there was a weekend wrap-up section, features on abortions, Viet Nam, the county fair and Black Muslims. Three editions blanketed...