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...wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years they perfectly complemented each other. UP's President Howard might be in London getting the historic 1916 "knockout" interview from David Lloyd George, or in Brest getting the equally historic false Armistice report from...
...given more jobs to blackamoors than had all three preceding Republican Presidents put together. To a North Carolina Negro businessman the President wrote that, in proportion to their numbers, Negro citizens had been given more Relief than whites. Negro journals like the Baltimore Afro-American, and the Pittsburgh Courier commented happily on these and other instances of the Roosevelt consideration for their race...
...Louisville, Ky. last week, staff members of the Courier-Journal and Times heard news they had been anxiously awaiting. Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge...
...Trust, a fund to provide German junkets for influential Americans. On his return, he took over the flabby old Washington Post. Six months later he was on his way to Richmond and the Times-Dispatch, soon raised its circulation 10%. Made president & publisher, Mark Ethridge seemed content until the Courier-Journal lured him away with a reputed $25,000 a year...
...history as a mine of cinema material, Producer Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength...