Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Labor issued its first report on one of its latest Labors?or relatively one of its latest Labors. In November, 1921, Congress passed a Maternity and Infancy Act. On March 20, 1922, the first funds became available. The report covers the following 15 months of work...
During the 15 months' period under report, $1,046,523 was dispersed by the Federal Government and $641,523 by States in coÖperation with the Federal agency...
...which our capital is to participate so heavily, is probably the best-guaranteed loan in the history of international finance. That is the case because the entire resources of the German Nation are pledged as collateral. American capital has an even wider interest in the adoption of the Dawes report and in what is bound to be its beneficent aftermath. That interest is that there now will open up for American investment in Germany a practically unlimited field of opportunity...
...Labor Day found the Baron of Renfrew at Belmont Park, sitting in August Belmont's box over which fluttered a Union Jack. He betted not, so said a report, but he was seen in the paddock and on the judges' stand. Although there were 60,000 people present, not all knew that the puerile* Baron was present. But, as for example, when God Save the King was played, the Union Jack run up on Mr. Belmont's private pole, and on his appearance in the paddock and on the judges' stand, many thousands of gullets manufactured right lusty and hearty...
...floor of the lofty New York Cotton Exchange building is the Cotton Board room. On one side of the room is a large map of the U. S., on which current weather conditions are kept posted. News of storms, hot and cold spells and rainfall are immediately reported here, and marked on the map. In the "Cotton Ring," where brokers and traders are establishing the price for future cotton, the latter never long lose sight of the weather map. For just now, it is mostly a question of the weather how large the 1924 cotton crop will...