Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
Last week Courier Wagner herded his dusky charges into Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. Few days later His Highness paid President Roosevelt a visit, his companions went rubbernecking about the Capital. But nobody checked in or out without notifying Courier Wagner. Between times he lolled in his suite, happily bibbing a double martini cradled in shaved...
...last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons, no subscription drives in connection with it. By last week, the Los Angeles Times, Buffalo Courier-Express, Portland (Ore.) Journal, Oakland Tribune, Philadelphia Record had signed up. In each case the Committee kept the origin of the records secret...
...smart little newspaperman named Julius David Stern, who was almost unknown outside of Camden, N. J., crossed the Delaware River to Philadelphia and with some of the money he had made from his Camden Post and Courier bought the doddering Philadelphia Record from John Wanamaker. At that time the third largest U. S. city had five listless, uncompetitive and politically hogtied papers. No good newspaperman considered Philadelphia worth a stop between Baltimore and Manhattan...
Herbert Agar, Pulitzer Prize winner in history and associate, editor of the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal, will be Phi Beta Kappa orator at the annual exercises of the Harvard chapter, in Sanders Theatre, June 23, during commencement week. Mr. Agar won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 with his book "The People's Choice...