Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the Belgian Ambassador's perturbation. Washington society gasped at the ferocity of the Post's attack. The Diplomatic Corps was loyally unanimous in its explanation of what lay behind the Post's report and comment. Chorused the diplomatists (in effect...
Senatorial nipping and snapping at Andrew William Mellon came to an end, at least temporarily, last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted down, 10 to 3, a report that he held the office of Secretary of the Treasury illegally because of stock ownership in industrial corporations. An ancient statute prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from being interested in "trade or commerce." Mr. Mellon freely admitted that he owns stock in the Aluminum Co. of America and other big concerns, but explained that he had resigned all his directorships and other business offices upon entering Federal service (TIME, April...
...galleries, courtyards and abodes of the Vatican Palace are ancient, convolved, mysterious. So darkly rooted is the Papal tradition of secrecy that only last week was the United Press able to report an accident which occurred in hushed Vatican precincts some seven months ago, and is thought to have influenced the Pontiff's recent decision to sell the last of his horses...
...connection has existed between Gerard Swope's U. S. General Electric Co. and Sir Hugo Hirst's British General Electric Co.. Ltd., onetime (TIME, April 1, et seq.) prominent exponent of the Britain-for-the-British financial theory. Last week, however, such a connection was rumored in the report that British G. E. contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric, it seemed at least possible that...
According to a report of the Committee on the Choice of Electives released yesterday, Economics continues to be the favorite field of concentration for the Freshmen, with English coming second, and History third. As a rule, there seems to be a tendency for Freshmen to concentrate in fields which prepare directly for a graduate school or for earning a livelihood...