Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
Despite all this, however, the opinion continued current in U. S. fiscal circles that the predominant meaning of the report right or wrong...
...feud between Church and State is soon to be composed. Today the numeral of Pope Pius is not IX but XI, and that of King Vittorio Emanuele is not I but III. The case has become plainly and simply one of "two other fellows;" and last week a report that they are moving toward rapprochement was significantly confirmed by United Press, after having been rumored some weeks ago by Hearst Universal Service...
From Mr. Irwin's report of what happened after that, you learn that Mary Pickford's girlhood ambition was to earn $20.000 a year before she was 20, that Samuel Goldwyn's real name is Goldfish, that David Wark Griffith was once a reporter, Cecil B. De Mille a writer of vaudeville sketches, and that Playwright Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, acted in Zukor's first pictures. You learn how Ben Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came...
...figures included late campaign contributions, one of which added a financial note to the long discord between Senator James Couzens, Michigan's motor-millionaire senator, and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. Senator Couzens made a last minute contribution of $10,000, and, according to one report, offered to make it $40,000 if promised that Mr. Mellon would not be reappointed treasury secretary...