Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highlights of the report...
...report confounded defeatists who moan that U. S. collegians can expect nothing but frustration. If the typical college graduate is unlikely to become rich, he is still better able to get a job, earn a living and stay married than are his non-college contemporaries...
...York State Tax Department it was reported that the estate (once appraised at $1,757,572) of mysteriously murdered Gambler Arnold Rothstein is now insolvent. Added the tax report: "The assets of this estate were not marketable assets . . . but were peculiar, due to the odd business interests of the decedent...
Although his grandfather migrated to Missouri some 100 years ago, Publisher Griffin is a professional Irishman. Nine months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence, William Griffin thinks, is a chain of modern hotels. Occasionally Publisher Griffin starts a movement to draft William Griffin for mayor (1937) or Senator...
...resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder grew. Best guess was that isolationists had hit on a new scheme...