Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Edge's statement that another lock in the Panama Canal or a new canal through Nicaragua will soon be necessary, is flatly contradicted by a recent report of the Senate Appropriations Committee which indicates that the Panama Canal is now operating at less than half capacity and that the tonnage passing through it has never approached the peak reached...
Money, politicians know, oils the wheels of the political machine. Last week Democrats, buoyed with hopes for 1928 elections, found their exchequer in the usual sad state. A report filed by the Democratic National Committee, with the clerk of the House of Representatives, showed a debt of over $200,000. Republicans, smarting under charges of bought elections, tartly replied that Democrats have no scandals because they cannot pay for them...
...explained, "he could not stand traveling and because he was able to act and sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that it was quite proper for Singer Gauber to break his contract and stay away from Vienna...
Western Union's net income last year was $15,205,049, no notable increase above the $15,186,259 of 1925. Yet the gross operating revenues were $134,464,886, the greatest in the concern's history, considerably more than the $127,078,023 of the previous year. In report to stockholders last week, President Newcomb Carlton said that 64,000 miles of copper wire were strung during...
...fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with his conception of a perfect woman...