Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From war's end to now Taylor has been back on the domestic scene, writing the story of U.S. politics, labor-management problems, the economy. A few of his other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses...
...wasn't quite as much a victory as it seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
...returned to Germany, became Minister of the Interior in Saxony. Last August he received a new title: Chef der Abteilung für Schulung bei der deutschen Verwaltung des Inneren (Chief of the Division for Training Connected with the German Administration of the Interior). The title was a fancy cover for his real job, head of the Bereitschaften-cadre army...
...closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little as 10% of the cash price of the stock. Most of them had no more cash to put up to cover their losses. Thus the stage was set for Oct. 24-"Black Thursday...
Harris also proposed examining the possibility of charging students who can afford to pay it the entire expense of their education. His report observed that tuition fees today rarely cover all a university's costs...