Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this extent is Newsstand Buyer Winner's criticism sound: cinemas are intended to appeal to popular rather than to recondite taste; they should be considered according to their intention, rather than according to the tastes of a critical dilettante. With this in mind. TIME will report them accurately, estimate their excellence as precisely as possible...
...other citizens present remained serious. Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, considered the report with the cold eye of a printer who knows a good deal about statistics and announced with Irish candor his belief that Chicago crime had not been materially stamped out. Mr. Donnelley said: "I know from secret sources that criminals in Chicago are watching this meeting and wondering whether this is the beginning of a rising of citizens. If it ends in talk, praising this person and that person, saying we are better than we are, we will be missing the greatest opportunity...
...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...while the report was current, officials received applications from ten hardy persons anxious to succeed Mr. Elliott. One man said, "I want to better myself." This man, who meant that he sought to make a better living, had doubtless heard that Executioner Elliott receives $150 per corpse; had perhaps read that Executioner Elliott earned, in a single day in 1927, $900 for giving "jolts" to three Massachusetts convicts in the morning, in the evening three more in New York...
...this connection it is interesting to note that in the President's Report for 1926-27 it is pointed out that 16 men "fully qualified from a scholastic point of view and who were morally acceptable" were refused entrance to the Class of 1931 because of the numerical limitation requirement. Furthermore, in the colleges of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the total number of applicants turned away was 141, of which 28 were men and 113 women...