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...jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
Morgan, his friend, the "elderly and well preserved Mrs. Douglas," her duenna and a cadging Italian courier. Mr. Morgan, said Mr. Fry, was rude everywhere. When, off Ancona, a choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies...
Charge White House Trickery, yammered the Republican Pittsburgh Courier. Roosevelt Charged With Trickery in Announcing Jim Crow Army Policy, shrilled the Kansas City Call. Along with the War Department's statement many a paper printed the demands made on President Roosevelt fortnight ago by his White House visitors: Secretary Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President A. Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters' union; T. Arnold Hill, an assistant in the N. Y. A. Division for Negro Affairs. For the Army's solution of The Problem had brusquely rejected...
...Robert Lee Vann's potent Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 126,962), for Roosevelt in 1936, this year is for Willkie...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...