Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flooded with irate telegrams, flayed in the press, vituperated on plantations and exchanges, called to conference by the President, Sec- retary Jardine promised an investigation of his Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics whence the report had issued. Later, upon leaving a meeting of the Cabinet, he announced that the Government would not again forecast the price of cotton...
...keep the Mississippi River an orderly stream in the future, are five boards of Army engineers. The separate provinces of these boards are apparent from their various titles-the Mississippi River Commission, the Spillways Board, the Reservoirs Board, the Navigation Board, the By-Path Board. Not until they all report finally can "the greatest rehabilitation measure," mentioned by Secretary Hoover (see above), be framed...
...which were improperly leased to the Doheny interests by onetime (1921- 23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Last week's final payments swelled the sum which the U. S. recovered from the Doheny companies, together with its oil lands, to a total of $24,237,341.05. The report of the receivership which has been managing Elk Hills since 1924 showed that operating costs had totaled only one-sixteenth of the income from the property, despite Oilman Doheny's insistence that he undertook the Elks Hills leases with "patriotic" motives...
Thus terminated the Japanese Imperial baptism, known as the Seventh Day Ceremonies. Forth with rode out of the palace precincts aged priests to report the name of Princess Hisa, as she will be known, to the Imperial Ancestors...
...spitball, pirouetted with an acorn clasped in waving paw, then threw a spitball to the squirrel on the roof who caught the pitched nut. Through a whole autumn afternoon these two impudent squirrels thus aped their betters playing baseball. (Such, at any rate, was the substance of a report vouched for by one Clair L. Morey, Canandaigua attorney, and broadcast by the Associated Press...