Word: informant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's British Press Convention, "little more than a monstrous invasion of individual privacy." That journalism is sufficiently isolated in Great Britain to make its proboscis glitter; in the republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent save for the wholesale violation of confidence and the ambiguous techniques of defamation. For one of these men the republic has reserved...
Plans for holding an institute for professors and teachers of economics in the colleges and preparatory schools of Massachusetts were made yesterday at a meeting of the Junior NRA Committee of the Massachusetts State Recovery Board. The purpose of the institute would be to correctly inform all teachers and professors of the fundamentals of the NRA so that they in turn may interpret them for their students and pupils...
...incident which occurred during the summer. It appears that M. Jean-Marie Chalifour, citizen of France and instructor in Harvard's French Department, awoke one sultry A.M. to find in his mail box a communication from the city of Cambridge. It was apparently the intent of some minion to inform M. Chalifour that he owed a $2.00 poll...
...sincerely believe the best way to prevent such atrocities in future is through continued exposure by such influential periodicals as TIME. May we hope, in the interests of justice and humanity, that your great magazine will continue to inform its readers of future developments in Irak...
...shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision and modernization of all the hundreds of items which go into the computation. This...