Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legmen had to face competition from their bosses. The Louisville Courier-Journal's Publisher Mark Ethridge doubled in brass as bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...
...Among others on Johnson's list: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
Mark F. Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times delievered the annual Oration, "The United States as a World Power" and British poet Stephen Spender read a new poem, "Speaking to the Dead in the Language of the Dead" in the Senders Theater festivities...
Acting under the Taft-Hartley Act, the President appointed a fact-finding board. It was composed of Federal Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime New Dealing Senator from Indiana; Mark Ethridge, liberal publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and Dr. George W. Taylor, professor of labor relations at the Wharton School of Finance, onetime chief of the War Labor Board. It was a board which could hardly be called prejudiced against labor. Taylor was a veteran of many coal disputes...
...South Carolina, the Charleston News & Courier had a more radical idea: "Were the Court to decree that Negroes be admitted into state-supported colleges for white students in South Carolina, this paper would urge that all appropriations for the [state universities] cease. That could close them. The white people would have plenty of money to support private colleges for themselves...