Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapermen racking their brains for things to write about at Swamp- scott raked up a report that Republican leaders in Massachusetts were talking to Mr. Coolidge about a Congressional reapportionment once in ten years.†A...
...distinguished company was there to organize a national movement for the reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
...report was approved. Besides providing in general for an organization, it also provided specifically who should be Chairman of the Commission and fill its vacant posts with flesh and blood, famed, able, interested. Who was chosen for this responsible post? The Press had anticipated that it would be Judge Gary?but it was not he. Who else of the notables? A merchant prince? A captain of industry? A potent segnor of the law? None of these. Judge Gary and his associates centered their selection upon a young man, only 29; a member of the New York Assembly (lower house...
...Department was happy to announce, many years ago, the conquest and suppression of the last of the headhunters in the Philippines. Yet last week brought a report from the Islands that a small epidemic of head-hunting has broken out. The Ilngote* tribe...
Denial. Dr. Boyd's "synthol" report was given the lie direct. Upon reading Dr. Boyd's statements in the newspapers, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., President of the General Motors Corporation, said: "Ridiculous on their face, for General Motors has recently announced a new series of cars, which should be sufficient answer." Said Walter C. Teagle, oil President: "Insofar as it refers to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, there is no basis in fact for the despatch...