Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verbatim report of the vote of the Corporation passed in its meeting Monday, follows: "Voted, the Corporation being informed that the suggestion of the Overseers for movable steel stands is impracticable, that the President and Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletic be authorized to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands at the end of the end of the Stadium by reinforced concrete seats...
...captains and sergeants depart with a clean slate, there is no little gloom among the shops sartorial, tonsorial, and cosmetic that flaunt their signs around the Common. The great public continues its patronage, but, just as Harvard has said it will not employ their services, so Boston's police report that they need them...
...Passed Senator Walsh's resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to report on taxes, if any, paid by Harry Ford Sinclair et al. on profits of the suspect Continental Trading Co. (the Treasury soon reported that proper taxes had been paid...
Naturally Writer Sidney Sutherland was haled before his editors for questioning. He swore several jagged, journalistic oaths at men unaware of what they say during interviews; then explained what happened. His employers believed him. Then came a bright thought. His report would make a good story. He wrote...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...