Word: courier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest Negro newspaper in the world is the weekly Pittsburgh Courier. The Courier last year had 138,299 readers according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its press run now is close to 170,000. Not more than about 10% of its circulation is in Pittsburgh; the rest is scattered over the U. S., ranges as far afield as the West Indies, China, Jerusalem...
...list of dinner speakers for the first half year has already been drawn up by Mr. Lyons. Included in the list are: Joseph Pulitzer, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator; Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier Journal; Arthur Sulzberger, publisher, New York Times; Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent, New York Times; Lucien Price, editorial writer, Boston Globe; and Harry W. Frantz, chief of foreign correspondents of the United Press, Washington. According to present plans the dinners will be held at the Signet Society clubhouse on Dunster Street and be open only to the Nieman Follows...
Particularly proud of his medical knowledge is Courier Wagner, who has safaried with many a big game expedition through Africa without a single case of malaria or sleeping sickness. Three clients, however, were fanged by poisonous snakes. Courier Wagner brought them around by sucking their wounds, dusting them with permanganate crystals and pickling the victims in Scotch & sodas (usually a bad idea...
...Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
Less whimsical, but equally sticktuitive are his present clients, who will keep him busy till November. Courier Wagner will then be free to join his wife in London, whence they will repair to Switzerland on their annual winter holiday...