Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt took delight in "scooping" the correspondents assigned to cover him on news of the arrival in Seattle of his No. 5 grandson, a 9-lb. 1-oz. Boettiger...
...with a Leica camera, Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann darts back & forth in front of the Führer unmolested, while other photographers are kept at a respectful distance. The world's news agencies clamor for Heinrich Hoffmann's pictures, for he is the man who picks the photographers to cover everything the Aggrandizer does, and for the best jobs he picks himself...
...will of William F. Milton '58, the Milton Fund for Research gives grants of varying amounts each year to different instructors and administrators to pay for special research. Work financed by this year's grants cover such widely differing subjects as preparation for a "History of the Voyages of Columbus" and experimental studies with insulin and metrozol used in the treatment of dementia praecox...
...revision to aid recovery is an idea of Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee. (Most correspondents considered this camouflage to cover a shift by the President away from the viewpoint of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who, with Under Secretary John Hanes, were the first oracles of revision-for-Recovery...
...small gasoline engine. He stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...