Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...badly misrepresented have been the enthusiastic journalists of Buffalo was seen last week when the Courier and the Express amalgamated, with the announcement: "The Courier and Express believes in Buffalo and shares with others the vision of 'A Million City' in a relatively few years. . . . There can be no transaction of greater moment to the people than a transaction like this, which touches the whole people from an angle particularly personal to them...
...William Burke Miller, $1,000, for best reporting. His subject was Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky.; his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...song of their own selection, and a prize song, Henschel's "Morning Hymn." Judges Walter Henry Hall, professor of Church and Choral Music at Columbia University, Dr. Holies Daun, head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place, a point score of 273 out of a possible 300. Second came the Guido Chorus...
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...
...precedent. All of the rules seem designed for the individual Senator. For "none of the Senators is negligible because each one of them has the power to obstruct". It was the elderly but long-winded Senator Morgan of Alabama, Mr. Lowry tells, who, interrupted by the arrival of a courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto Rican Citizenship Bill," came the answer. Thereupon...