Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among his most famed speeches, away from the groaning board, were speeches at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, the centennial of Washington's inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
Careful inspection of the British criticisms, however, showed that they were mainly based on an early and erroneous Chinese version of the MacMurray settlement. According to this report the U. S. Minister had "apologized" to the Chinese Nanking Government because during the "Nanking Outrage" two U. S. war vessels fired upon the city. The true facts of the case were not known until last week, when the U. S. State Department released the verbatim text of the MacMurray settlement, which consists of six notes exchanged between the U. S. Minister and Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein...
...Authority for the Secretary of War to survey the Mississippi's tributaries and report what flood-control works they need...
...House, where flood control hearings began last November with no result as yet, the Senate was congratulated and its work received with interest. The House Flood Control Committee approved the bill and prepared to report it without major amendments...
...sense the projects envisioned before the luncheon in Milan, last week, interested observers turned to a report on the Italian hydro-electric industry which was issued recently by Signor Giacinto Motta, managing director of the great firm which produces 30% of the electricity used by Italians, namely the Edison General Italian Electric Co. of Milan. Brisk and explicit, Signor Motta keynotes thus...