Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Hurley's parents were Roman Catholics. His friends in Tulsa believe he is a Roman Catholic. He declines to deny or confirm a nationwide news report which stated that he is a Roman Catholic...
...crowd of spectators at last week's Senate Lobby Committee hearings sat one inconspicuous man intently following every word of testimony, taking many a note. No professional newsgatherer, he was reporting the investigation for a special client. Inmmediately after each day's hearings a comprehensive report of what had transpired swiftly found its way into the White House and upon the President's desk...
Flayed by the Lobby Committee in its fourth report, last week, was James A. Arnold, lobbyist for the Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...
...explanation Lord Kylsant said that "public attacks" had hurt the company although its earnings for this year would be as large as during 1928. Yet canny Londoners, awaiting the auditor's report, were inclined to believe Viscount St. Davids' attack upon his brother had been more than a family squabble. For Lord Kylsant's official statement included the phrases: "write off . . . for estimated shrinkage (under present conditions in heavy British industries) of investments in other than shipping companies." These "investments" were guessed to be the base of Viscount St. Davids' anger, were seen to be unwise and unwarranted uses...
This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...