Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gather from the report of the Hockey games between the Boston Bruins and the Ottawa Senators, in your SPORTS column, TIME, April 25, that sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck and that the games were marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. If I have misread your article, please inform...
Bootleggers' Incomes. Should a bootlegger list the profits of his profession in his income tax report? He should, said energetic, eloquent Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, arguing last week against Bootlegger Manly S. Sullivan. Bootlegger Sullivan failed to make an income tax return, was found guilty of so failing by the Federal District Court at Charleston, S. C. He got the decision reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, reached finally the U. S. Supreme Court. His defense depended on the fact that Congress, passing the Federal income tax law, provided no immunity to return...
...Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make appropriations. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi invited the President to visit the flooded area. The President declined, listening instead to a report by Secretary Hoover, who returned to Washington. From New Orleans came reports that business was as usual, that the danger to the city had been exaggerated by a Nationwide, sensation-seeking press. Newspapers were accused of having published pictures of New Orleans streets, flooded by rain, of labeling these pictures...
...glad to report that the Mexican Ambassador has recently declared to me that she [Mexico] does not intend to confiscate our property, that she has shown diligence in capturing and punishing those who have murdered our citizens, and expressed the wish, which we so thoroughly entertain, of keeping cordial and friendly relations...
...events of last week's hold-up were told by General Amarillas in an official report to President...