Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of quota-country immigrants, Secretary Davis' report showed three-fourths of them (254,574 in 1927) to be able active persons in-the-prime-of-life, aged...
Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred...
Business men who ask these questions had waited to hear what the Secretary of Commerce would say this year. Secretary Hoover published his report for fiscal 1927 last week. The gist of his generalizations was that never in the world's history had a nation worked and lived so well as did the U. S. last year; never was prosperity so solidly founded...
...some of the incidents that befell him on the way. Arriving at Port Said, Professor Holcombe says that there he had made a brief survey of the government, and then proceeded on to Geneva, where he attended the meetings of the league of nations. He expects to make a report later of his observations there. From Geneva, Professor Holcombe said, that he journeyed down through the Balkans to Belgrade...
After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...