Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge house, the secret service men had to keep away the crowd of tourists who flocked in increasing numbers. Colonel Coolidge has kept a guest book; when the President arrived, it already held 26,732 signatures. The only work which the President took with him was the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar. Nevertheless, temporary executive offices were prepared in a sort of dance-hall-lodge-meeting-room over the village store. It contains four desks, two telephones, four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born...
...When Samuel Gompers made a report to the Executive Council of his Federation of Labor in favor of indorsing LaFollette and Wheeler he ceased to be the leading figure in the American labor movement, or, rather, by his own act he recognized that that leadership had passed from him to. others. He was trailing after Johnston of the Machinists, Stone of the Engineers' Brotherhood, Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and several others who were quicker than he had been to see how the bloc tendency in American politics suited the purposes of organized Labor. It was they...
...wish to communicate to the German Government and, in so far as they require to have the assent of the German Government, they wish to discuss them with it. The sole business of the Conference is to deal with matters arising out of the application of the Experts' Report; and to that I must, as Chairman of the Conference, confine its attention. I hope that by the exercise of the desire and spirit of cooperation we may arrive speedily at agreement upon our business and so enable the London Conference of 1924 to mark a successful attempt to make...
...flurry passed. Came comment on the Dawes report, plaudits for the League. Then David Hunter Miller, New York lawyer, started another tempest. Mr. Miller's admission ticket to the Institute was compounded of service with the American Peace Commission and experience as counsel for the German Government on the Upper Silesian question before the League...
Said the Laborites' report: "To place the suggestion of inferiority in the thought of a little child is in itself outrageous, and to do this in the public schools, through an alleged 'scientific' system which shows more than 40% error, is a crime against childhood...