Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trapped on the second floor, gesticulated appealingly to the crowd below with cries of "Help!" but it was correctly surmised by the spectators that the victims were beyond all possible assistance. Fortunately no casualties occurred. That the conflagration was conceived in some form of sin or sorrow, was the report of several witnesses...
...invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect of an old man's memory...
Said the Butler report: "However reprehensible it may be for this woman to marry the Indian for mercenary purposes and to procure the assistance of lawyers to aid her in becoming possessed of his property as his wife, it is not a crime nor is her procurement of assistance a conspiracy to commit a crime...
...report exonerated Commissioner Burke, whose resignation last week was accepted by President Hoover. Mr. Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
Cornell University has been making a study of egg deterioration and preservation. Last week Paul Francis Sharp, Cornell's professor of dairy chemistry, who has been working on the matter with other Cornell men, wrote a preliminary report to Science. Eggs spoil, he stated, because...