Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenth Anniversary (Pioneers') Convention of the National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs at Mackinac Island, Mich. That over, because it would be some weeks before I could tackle TIMES piled up during my absence-and especially because of interest as to how TIME would report this 1929 Convention of over 1200 B. and P. women of these U. S. and Canada-for the following two weeks I purchased TIME on New York newsstands...
Looked under "Business." No report. Turned to "National Affairs." No report. "Milestones." Surely there I would find-"Elected: Miss Marion H. McClench, Ann Arbor, Mich., President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs," etc. Expected also to find a picture of the new leader...
Sometimes caught napping, TIME never sleeps. Let Subscriber Wendemuth burrow again into her piled-up TIMES, extract the issue of July 22, turn to p. 14, under department heading "Women," story headline "F. B. P. W. C." and read a 35-line report on B. & P. women...
...epitome of Tropical medicine was the 381-page annual report which United Fruit Co. published last week. United Fruit does a plantation, railroad and shipping business in seven tropical American countries. Long ago its officials prudently decided to maintain the health of their employes, of passengers on their ships. At the beginning of this year 110 Company doctors, laboratory technicians and registered nurses provided medical services for 55,604 plantation employes, 89,053 non-employes, 31,726 ship's personnel, 57,592 ship passengers-a grand total of 233,975 souls, about as many as live in Akron, Ohio...
...Karl H. Von Wiegand. European director of William Randolph Hearst's Universal News service: Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst-backed polar explorer; Lady Grace Drummond Hay, fastidious Hearst voyageuse; Robert Hartman, Hearst photographer; the U. S. Navy's Lieut.-Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Hearst guest. Their duties were to report the popular and scientific details exclusively for Hearst and associated newspapers. Other passengers and the crew were forbidden to say a word or sell a picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst paid a secret sum (approximately $200,000). Correspondent...