Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning at an 84-page report. At 'legger prices, the liquor theft, directly under the nose of U. S. agents, amounted to some...
Reparations. The Experts' report from Paris was "being considered." Rhineland evacuation was in sight...
...Weather Bureau began functioning last week to protect flying all the way across the continent. In a 400-mi. wide strip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New York, 60 weather reporting stations have been organized. Day and night they report local meteorological conditions to collecting centres at Cleveland, Omaha, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. From these centres, every three hours, day and night, consolidated weather information on wind direction and velocity, temperature, dew point, air pressure, clouds, is broadcast to passing planes...
...train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, still suffers occasionally from a gassing there received. Lately...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...