Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report showed that there were 175,495 divorces in 1925, as compared with 170,952 in 1924- an increase of nearly 2.7%. Marriages, however, increased only .3 of 1%. New Jersey and Delaware led in the increases in divorce, with gains of 16.9%. Massachusetts and Louisiana, at the other end of the scale, showed decreases of 11.2% and 8% respectively...
...historians need one proud sentence to pin on the Coolidge Administration, they might do well to take the opening pronouncement of Secretary of Commerce Hoover's annual report issued last week: "The fiscal year 1925-26 has been one never surpassed in our history in the volume of production and consumption, in the physical quantity of exports and imports, and in the rate of wages...
...expected that the executive committee will be empowered to appoint a commission to study the curriculum of American universities during the next year, and make a full report at next year's convention...
...following is the full report of the Judges Committee...
...Hoover comes forth with the blithe statement that the fiscal year 1925-1926 has been the most successful in the history of the United States; successful economically, in volume of production and consumption, in quality of imports and exports, and in rate of wages. The nation, according to this report, is in excellent condition. More to the point, Mr. Hoover backs his diagnosis by figures which, though one wonders where he got them, show ebullient prosperity...