Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the blase dinner guests who tell this story are being more apt than risqué, was indicated by a report last week from Secretary William M. Jardine's watchful Department of Agriculture. U. S. horses, said the report, and U. S. mules, are decreasing rapidly in numbers. Their population is 17% less than in 1920. The next five years will show a 30% or 40% reduction of their present scanty number. Breeding, warned the Department, must be stimulated to meet what is already an acute shortage on farms where machinery is impracticable...
Meanwhile, Captain Lindbergh is saying little, waiting until he returns to the U. S. to make his plans. He has, however, denied the report that he will soon attempt a flight to Australia. He may return to the air mail service. He may enter the airplane manufacturing business, perhaps in the Ryan Airlines, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., which-built his monoplane. Said Benjamin F. Mahoney, president of the Ryan company: "Lindbergh flies, but he keeps his feet on the ground...
...which he needs give no accounting, he performs miracles of feeding, healing, etc. He conducts six short Sunday services, preaching no sermons, at early and late hours so that his people may be out of doors on their holy day. He holds confessional, informally, in his study. His annual report deals not with attendances, collections or membership rolls, but with community improvements or needs which are no more churchly than secular since...
...Committee reported further that it considered at length the situation at the time of the severing of relations with Princeton and made a report to the Board of Overseers. It took action also in approbation of the President in condemning certain articles in undergraduate publications and approved the appointment of a committee to confer with the Athletic Committee and the Student Council...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...