Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week at Swampscott was a session which the President had with the news correspondents. The import of the meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that he was expecting an anthracite miners...
...following anecdote came out of Washington as a news report: A man on the street recognized the flashy automobile of a well-known bootlegger. Wishing to order some refreshments, he hailed a taxicab to overtake the car. The car pulled up at a Government building as the taxicab came alongside. The thirsty one called to the driver of the bootlegger's car: "Can you deliver me a case of Scotch today?" The driver turned around towards the questioner, disclosing his face-the face of Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes. Mr. Haynes had taken advantage of a recent ruling that...
...This report of Mr. Ford's rather fantastic ideas makes good hot-weather reading, but in one respect they are to be taken seriously. They will be quoted undoubtedly in other lands and will provide another unfortunate illustration of the self-sufficiency which seems to be the ideal just now of many otherwise able Americans...
What the Lancet Said. Dr. Gye's report was long and highly technical. It described experiments with the tumors (cancers) of many animals. The conclusions he came to, as reported in the press, are these...
Recently, the last eight shares were acquired from one Jennie R. Morse. The board of directors, receiving the final report of the trustees, terminated the trust and retired the total capital stock. By this action, absolute control of the Equitable's assets is turned over to the policyholders, and the enterprise is now a complete mutual organization without capital stock...