Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
...Cabinet." Smooth, alliterative, the phrase vividly suggests booted, spurred cavalrymen administering Island affairs to the accompaniment of clanking sabres. Such a picture, of course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino eyes...
...tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until the new century opened did he become News Editor of The London Daily Mail...
Many a public health official many an educator searched the report for hints of what aid he might wheedle from the Foundation for his particular work next year. But wheedling the Rockefeller Foundation for money is in vain. Its program is definite, although by no means inflexible. Their trustees, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. at their head, decide on a year's program; their administrators, organized by President Vincent, accomplish that program...
...despatch quoted Mr. McGraw as saying: "I am getting tired of traveling and I expect to step out as manager. Hornsby is the man to carry on. The members of the club all swear by Hornsby." Mr. McGraw quickly branded this despatch as false, said: "They always start that report when the team is losing." However, McGraw had praised Hornsby highly on Hornsby Day in St. Louis and he had hinted at retirement "some day." McGraw is 54. It would not be surprising to see him give up baseball when his contract as Manager of the Giants expires...