Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annual report of the League of Nations "white slavery" Committee* revealed that the Panama Canal Zone is now one of the chief headquarters of this international traffic. Portugal was stigmatized because the Portuguese law still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenanci...
...Council heard a preliminary report on educational conditions in Polish Upper Silesia where there is a large "German minority." Controversy spirals up from the complaints of Germans that their children are being forced to learn Polish, and the retort of Poles that the students really are Polish and that it would merely be pampering their misguided German parents to educate these children in German...
...bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur...
...legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them to do'. . . . [From this, some have drawn the unwarranted inference] that he was willing to do an illegal thing if a way could be found to do it; safely. But such," said Judge Gary, "was never...
...reports have grown since William Wood, organizer of the American Woolen Co., committed suicide last year (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Since 1924, the company has been losing money. The loss then was $6,944,420. Last year, according to the annual report issued last week, the loss...