Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supplementary report of the Tariff Commission, in regard to the question of whether the President should raise, lower or leave unchanged the tariff on sugar, came to the White House, where the President was formulating his decision...
...season of reports-official, annual, Government reports-which is at its height during December of each year, was inaugurated by the appearance of the official report on the Panama Canal, rendered through the War Department by Governor Jay J. Morrow, who is just retiring. The report was, as usual, for the fiscal year-ended June 30, last. It showed an increase of traffic through the Canal of 38.7% over the previous year. A great part of this was due to large shipments of oil from California. Deducting all this temporary boom-oil, however, canal traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated...
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur issued his annual report on the Navy. Few new facts were disclosed. The following sentences represent the gist of his remarks...
...special report of the Executive Council recommended that the Federation continue its non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee and declared: "We are partisan to principles?not to a political Party." Adherence to the La-Follette Party was definitely voted down...
...Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen; and several other things of like nature that I do not put down for publication because they came to me by report rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were the French audiences that watched the Games. At any rate, remembering always our immense numbers, and that irritating business of anthem and flag...