Word: couriered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taruc evidently was being squeezed by the mounting pres sure. Through a courier he sent me a note asking for a meeting with Magsaysay himself, "whenever and wherever" the President desired. Magsaysay refused. "I will not give him the importance of meeting me," he said. As far as the President was concerned, Taruc was a common criminal, wanted for murder and sedition. He could either accept the government's terms or suffer the consequences at the hands of the Philippine army...
...take a train to the canal terminus in Cumberland, Md. and walk from there to Washington, D.C. Two days and 43 miles after they left Cumberland, Bookman and fellow walkers arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down under a pine tree, the muscles...
...most of its readers were. The Mercury-Chronicle announced that it would experiment with running McCarthy stories on page 3 instead of Page One because the paper's editors felt "there has been something of a tendency everywhere to overplay 'McCarthy' stories." Last week the Louisville Courier-Journal (circ. 201,212) strongly disagreed and read a sharp lecture to the Mercury-Chronicle editors and other working newsmen who feel it their responsibility to "play down" McCarthy. Said a Courier-Journal editorial...
...carpetbagger reference was unfortunate-for Johnston. Kimbel, who was born in New York City, is public relations director for the Myrtle Beach, S.C. division of a Massachusetts corporation; he has helped to bring other industries into the state. Said the Charleston News & Courier: "'Carpetbagger' carries a meaning of hatred left over from Reconstruction when Northern villains picked the bones of the defeated Confederacy...
...Arrest that man!" shouted Chief Gugel, pointing at Photographer Bailey. "I'm still boss in this town, and I'll tell you when you can take my picture." He seized Bailey's camera, ruined his film, and had him carted off to jail. The Courier-Journal reported what had happened in Page One stories, and a grand jury indicted Police Chief Gugel for interfering with Photographer Bailey's civil rights. Another grand jury indicted Gugel for "nonfeasance of duty," i.e., failing to suppress gambling and prostitution. The same jury also indicted Detective Thiem, the raider...