Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic incident of the week was the inexplicable leaking out of an old, secret Scotland Yard "Report on the Activities of James Ramsay MacDonald from 1916 to 1921." In the expert opinion of detectives who prepared the report, "Mr. MacDonald is a Constitutional Socialist and by no means a Bolshevist...
...will be a Freshman managerial competition. At the end of six weeks, when the indoor season begins, a Freshman manager and first assistant manager will be chosen, one of whom will become University Polo team manager after a competition in his Sophmore year. All candidates for this competition should report at 2 o'clock either today or tomorrow at the Army stables on Soldiers Field...
Five Supreme decisions remained to be rendered after arguments heard last spring. Three of these cases were notable-1) The Great Lakes States v. the City of Chicago. Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, a onetime member of the Supreme Court, had been appointed special master. His report upheld Chicago's right to withdraw water from Lake Michigan, at the expense of other lake levels, for its sewage canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether...
...emphatic writer for the arch-Democratic New York World had announced, on "final" authority, that the G. O. P. had "virtually abandoned all hope" of Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Now came Clinton W. Gilbert, seasoned correspondent for the Republican New York Evening Post, with an eye-witness report that Minnesota was "in the balance." Party lines are almost invisible in the Northwest but Correspondent Gilbert thought he could perceive underlying reasons: the low price of wheat, the absence of the religious and social-eligibility issues; the wetness of the cities; Smith's popularity; race feeling...
...District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were to be allowed a week to prepare a similar statement. Mayor Mackey planned to subject these reports to comparative analysis. "It will thus occur...