Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount...
...credentials of Senator-elect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania were accepted by the U. S. Senate on March 4, 1927; but he has not yet been allowed to ake his seat, because of charges pending against him. These charges, as summed up last week in the report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject...
...induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...
...grey, lowering ships formed precise patterns on the rolling waters. Blue-coated, brass-buttoned tacticians directed and studied these patterns. Now the vessels drove ahead in files, now they spread out in phalanges. Twenty airplanes were catapulted from the decks, droned ahead to find the "enemy." They returned to report; the patterns were changed. Certain formations meant probable success, others probable disaster. Smoke billowed from funnels, gigantic guns stirred in their turrets, officers peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent curious wireless messages. But always the heaving ships cut new furrows, new foamy patterns...
...report the Student Council expresses its desire to offer constructive criticism. The idea of a second Yard is fundamentally sound and at the same time is susceptible to whatever changes in detail further investigation may render advisable. The suggested participation of a committee of two Student Council members in a discussion on the subject by University authorities, no matter what the outcome, would both facilitate such adaptations and assure that adequate consideration was shown what is supposedly undergraduate opinion...