Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rebels were rising in the back country. That morning a wireless message had come through that revolutionists had captured the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, were advancing on the capital. Minister Curtis ordered Courier Cabot to Santiago de los Caballeros to find out what the leaders of the revolution wanted. One hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full...
Open rebellion was declared fortnight ago by a group under the leadership of "Supreme Chief" Rafael Estrella Urena. It was to him that Courier Cabot raced...
With his major international problem thus well in hand, M. Maniu turned reluctantly to a pile of documents just brought by special courier from the Rumanian Legation at Berlin, dealing with the ab normality of Count Alexander von Hochberg, fiance of Princess Ileana of Rumania (TIME...
...President planned to eat and sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...
...Haven Journal-Courier quoted by Yale Daily News...