Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improving health has put pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely...
...Arthur Krock, able chief of the New York Times's Washington staff, went the $500 award for distinguished Correspondence. A newsman for 29 of his 48 years, bespectacled Arthur Krock first covered Washington for the late great "Marse Henry" Watterson, whose Louisville Courier-Journal he later edited. In 1923 he joined the New York World's distinguished staff of editorial writers, thence to the Times. Four years ago he reluctantly returned to Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur...
...American opinion, through the interplay of haste, ignorance and their own psychological necessities, had begun to distinguish in the German Empire a vast, malignant power which alone and for its own atrocious ends had plunged the world into this stupendous catastrophe." "Marse Henry" Watterson. fiery editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, voiced U. S. opinion early in the War (September, 1914): "May Heaven protect the Vaterland from contamination and give the German people a chance! To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs!" From this sentiment to the feeling that all Germans were barbarians was an easy step. Though...
Among the important publications which the library does keep are "The Boston Courier," a hotel periodical; "The Groton Landmark"; the "New Militant," a socialist publication; Giustizia e Liberta," another socialist paper; and "The Watertown Tribune and Enterprise." Certainly this list is no more important from a research point of view than a Hearst publication...
...accepts the jury's opinion," agreed the Buffalo Courier & Express. "The nail holes were not mistaken!" exulted the Pittsburgh Press. The Philadelphia Inquirer boomed: "Justice well deserved has come to the man Hauptmann!" To various journals the verdict was: "logical" (Boston Transcript), "healthy" (Knoxville Journal), "salutary" (Albany News), "memorable" (Minneapolis Daily Sun), "in accord with law and fact'' (Detroit Free Press...