Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Senator Reed of Pennsylvania report that Senators Borah and Norris were blameless in connection with payments alleged to have been received by them from the Soviet Government...
...much does the U. S. Government spend on Prohibition? From $13,000,000 to $15,000,000 yearly has been the usual direct appropriation for the Prohibition Department. Last week, however, Dry Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, succeeded in getting the Senate Appropriations Committee to report a $25,000,000 increase in Prohibition funds. The Senator originally proposed $50,000,000, but the Committee halved the sum. The Senate as a whole has taken no action as yet on the proposal, which is a part of a current deficiency bill. Recently (TIME, Dec. 24) Wet Senator Bruce of Maryland...
...Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
...report of the Society for the year 1927-1928, the dividends paid to the 9,286 Harvard members, averaged about nine-dollars. The highest sum paid was slightly over, 80 dollars, and the lowest, five cents...
Figures taken from an older report than that of the year 1902-1903, which are not included in the 25 year survey, show even more clearly the growth of the Society, which is now in its forty-sixth year of business. The total sales as recorded that year were $170,477, with the dividends paid at a 6 percent rate totaling...