Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimate by his personal attorney, was made public by the Deputy Tax Commissioner in the Surrogate's Court, Manhattan. The chieftain's largest holding was $520,151 in New York City stock. His realty holdings were appraised at $272,200, with $1,601,288 in securities. The report of the appraiser shows that Mr. Murphy was a heavy but careful speculator in all types of securities and dealt with five brokerage houses. He carried no life insurance...
...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
During the week additional developments concerning noted Russians often seen across the footlights included a report that Constantin Stanislavsky, Director of the Moscow Art Theatre, had been stricken blind in Moscow...
Confused despatches from China last week centred about the startling report that the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang had suddenly been confronted with a most serious mutiny in his ranks, which was supposed to have reduced the forces still loyal to him from 150,000 to less than a third of that number...
...seems safe to deduce two general truths: first, that the average college student in America is dissatisfied with lectures, such as he knows them; and second, that the same average student has a strong prepossession in favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion of the lecture system...