Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution to have the credentials of Representative-elect John W. Langley of Kentucky considered by a select committee to report on the qualifications of Mr. Langley and recommend action to the House. Mr. Langley is under prison sentence for conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws...
...Received the report of its special committee investigating aircraft (of which Congressman Reid, lawyer for Colonel Mitchell, is a member) recommending, besides measures for promoting civil aviation, the creation of a Department of National Defense over both Army and Navy...
...President sent to Congress, following his annual report "on the state of the nation," another message the sending of which is rapidly becoming habitual-the message which accompanies the budget. In this he dealt with the fiscal affairs of the Government for three years: briefly with the fiscal year of 1925 (closed last June) and the fiscal year of 1926 (now in progress, closing next June), and more at length with the fiscal year of 1927 (beginning next July), for which appropriations will be made at this session of Congress...
...Beaven, unearthed the following surprising secret as long ago as 1901: "There is now an electrophone communication between York House and the leading London theatres in order that the Duke and Duchess of York may listen to the various entertainments in the privacy of their abode." Court gossips report that since Edward of Wales came into residence, he has preferred to go to the theatre himself...
...voluminous report on the working of the Dawes Plan during the first year of its operation, Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, made public the following observations last week...