Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of that, the most interesting statement of last week in Pennsylvania was one issued in Pittsburgh by a sharp-faced, dark-skinned personage who occupies a mansion hard by the swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...
...badly jeopardized as it appeared. Publisher Vann is a smart Negro-born in the tobacco-market town of Ahoskie, N. C. in 1882, graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...
From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...
...personnel of the deliberating group included assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
...snappy articles, the purposeful vacationist concluded that the North was as bad as the South. A dozen southern editors jumped at the chance to cast the stone back. This week, Reporter Ashmore's series begin appearing in papers like the Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham Age-Herald, Charleston News and Courier...