Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...Agent Gilbert's report even hinted, last week, that Germany is desperately hard pressed to pay, the Reich might have hoped for important concessions and scaling down of payments by the Committee of Experts...
Instead the report bluntly declares...
Contrasting with French joy was the raging fury of the German press last week. In Berlin the potent, Democratic Acht Uhr Abendblatt, even thought that Prime Minister Poincaré of France had "influenced'' Agent General Gilbert to write a "made to order report," and rashly charged that this perfidy had been arranged at the Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill and J. P. Morgan conference in Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left...
...confer "quite unofficially" with President Coolidge and President-Elect Hoover in Washington, later rejoining Mrs. Gilbert at her home in Louisville, Ky., and returning with her to Europe in about a fortnight. To hotly pressed queries about Reparations, the Agent General answered repeatedly: "You'll find that in my report...