Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago in Oklahoma City and notified him that the Legislature was in special session, he said to their committee: "Your body has a legal right to meet as citizens only and not as a branch of the legislative body. I decline and hereby refuse to receive any report from you as representing a legally convened legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen to patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following the tactics of onetime Governor Jack C. Walton, who was impeached in 1923. At dead...
...find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral credit in the matter of a commission which will go to India next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain why not one single Indian will sit on this commission his logic lacked conviction; but Mr. Baldwin turned the trick emotionally with two spacious sentences. "Let Indians dismiss any imputation...
Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
Prompt Payments. The report declares that all sums owed by Germany under the Dawes Plan in the third reparations year have been promptly paid as follows to creditor nations: Marks Dollars (approximate) France 766,998,000 174,000,000 British Empire 306,996,000 75,800,000 Italy 107,458,000 25,880,000 Belgium 97,244,000 23,280,000 Jugoslavia 54,277,000 12,960,000 Rumania 12,500,000 2,900,000 Japan 13,000,000 3,120,000 Portugal 8,000,000 1,920,000 Greece 4,000,000 960,000 Poland...
...evasion of the duty on imported automobiles." A further escapade by the Deputies, last week, was to pass 333 to 53 a bill increasing the salaries of Government officials which had been explicitly deplored as "extravagant" by the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert (See REPARATIONS REPORT...