Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed by the Washington Herald fortnight ago on Fort Riviere's capture, Minister Bellegarde, who speaks poor English, was reported as follows: "We in Haiti have always wondered about that. For there is no Fort Riviere. There never was. We have looked all over our island and there is no such thing. However, for taking Fort Riviere he [General Butler] got the Congressional Medal . . . fighting Marine...
When General Butler saw the newspaper, he rushed to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Herald, demanded retractions. Smart Mrs. Patterson stalled for time, tipped off the Press that General Butler had appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams to create a diplomatic incident. Minister Bellegarde, flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...
...they argue, do not specify the color of white-skins. If color must be designated, they can bear to see "John Doe, Negro," "Jane Doe, colored woman," but never "Jane Doe, Negress." Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) proudly told as important news how the great New York Herald Tribune had apologized for using the word "Negress" in an obscure news item concerning one Susie Lynch. Texas-born City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune was quoted by the Courier's Floyd J. Calvin: "We did not mean to use the word and of course apologize...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...
Century ago there were in the U. S. ten church members for every 75 persons. Now there are ten for every 25. (Total number of communicants: 50,037,245.) Dr. George Linn Kieffer, statistical secretary of the United Lutheran Church, declared in the Christian Herald: " the churches are losing ground, the reason and the remedy can be found in part in an analysis of the message they are proclaiming to the world. An age of doubt and question, of depression and lawlessness demands from the pulpits of the land a clear ringing statement?'We should fear and love...