Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slur on Actress Barrymore was intended or contained in TIME'S report. Scarlet Sister Mary's publisher advertised her as "The harlot of Blue Brook Plantation...
...Alexander H. Legge, Chairman; James Clifton Stone, Vice-Chairman; Carl Williams, C. B. Denman, Charles C. Teague. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the sixth member ex officio, was despatched by the President to the Mid-West, there to search out likely candidates for the other three places, to interview them, report on their fitness...
Ponselle Company. From Old Orchard, Me., takeoff place for trans-Atlantic flights, came report of an All-Star Grand Opera to be organized by Carmela Ponselle, onetime Metropolitan contralto, sister of Soprano Rosa Ponselle. Miss Ponselle announced an opening at Manhattan's Metropolitan in the fall; a tour of the East, South, Midwest...
Then he hired Stone & Webster to look over the properties acquired and report on their position and prospects. When Stone & Webster had completed their survey, Mr. Morgan offered them the Cumberland Light & Power Co. for the bargain price of $60,000. Borrowing the money, the partners bought the company, sold it some years later for $500,000. It was the profit on this operation that established Stone & Webster as a company of national scope...
...Harvard's commencement and reunion last fortnight. Banker John Pierpont Morgan stepped out of his line of march to handshake Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York. Last week Governor Roosevelt asked his Attorney-General to investigate at once and within two weeks report upon the new $665,000,000 Morgan merger of New York utility companies (TIME, June 24). Reason: It was "a matter of vital concern ... to every householder . . . who uses electric light or power in his home" if, through agreements with friendly companies, the Morgan merged companies would be in such a monopolistic position that...