Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest General in the French army and but one day older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also...
...Publishers of Chicago's Jewish Courier announced a cut in salaries. Editor S. M. Melamed & staff walked out on strike, proceeded to publish their own daily. The real Courier suspended publication...
When Banker Brown bought the Herald and Post in 1924, merging them the next year, his ambition was to challenge the longtime dominance of the Courier-Journal and Times, published by Judge Robert Worth Bingham. He poured nearly five million dollars into the combined papers, did make a fairly potent political mouthpiece. But he could not shake the traditional supremacy of the Courier-Journal, achieved in the days of the late great Editor "Marse Henry," Watterson. After BancoKentucky's crash, Publisher Brown started an economy regime in the Herald-Post. An inferior paper was the result. Last December...
...cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many white people have yet seen Heaven Bound but most of those who have were observed to look sorry...
Editorialized the Courier: "We regard this type of advertising as a reflection on the intelligence of our readers. ... Six years ago we took the initial stand against advertising revolvers; and while it was costly, we believe that the elimination of such advertising served a good purpose...