Word: courier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth will wear if they meet as scheduled in the U. S. in June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty's material to London.) Mrs. Roosevelt put statesmanlike point upon the act by saying: "We [herself and Queen Elizabeth] are both glad to emphasize the value of good wool in the trade of both countries...
...planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, many another colored advocate of racial balance in the U. S. Army & Navy...
Thompsonites. With her background of eight years as a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration...
...preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure...
...Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...