Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover approved the Boyden report which read: "The man [Bishop Cannon] is clearly a hoarder . . . because he held flour in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...
...general. As for individual companies, U. S. Steel Corp.'s earnings were last fortnight estimated at between $92,000,000 and $94,000,000, compared to first half 1928 earnings of $87,866,000 (TIME, July 22). Bethlehem Steel, second biggest, had up to last week made no report. Of other potent steel companies, the following have announced 1929 earnings to date: Republic Iron & Steel Co. This Ohio company, with both William G. Mather, big-Cleveland-iron-man and Cyrus S. Eaton, big-Cleveland-steel-man, on its di rectorate, has made extraordinary progress during the past year. After...
...there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive of many rumors, that it could not even dignify with a denial every report that reached its ears...
Unmentioned in the official report was the fact that onetime Court Chamberlain General Angelescu, powerful Bratianu appointee, much more potent than "fantastic" Col. Stojka, was also arrested, imprisoned with Fantastic Stojka in the Jilavele military prison...
Many a Manhattanite last week began to think that putting savings in a sock was perhaps not such a foolish idea. Just as state officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke Bros., another Manhattan banking firm which last fortnight closed its doors. First reports put the Clarke failure at $4,000,000, gave depositors hope of getting 25 cents on the dollar. Later it seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar...