Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Postmaster General Harry Stewart New had to report that his branch of the Government, theoretically, selfsupporting, showed a deficit of 33 millions for 1928, an increase of $5,000,000. But he was not downhearted. Establishing and popularizing the Air Mail had been an extraordinary expense. Some day the Air Mail may more than pay for itself and, anyway, it is a valuable encouragement to U. S. aeronautics. Mr. New urged that similar encouragement be given the U. S. Merchant Marine by extending U. S. mail contracts to U. S. shippers...
...Mellon noted a decline of 3% in the physical volume of all business transacted but an increase of 7.7% in dollar-volume. The Hoover report had showed that just the opposite was true of the country's foreign trade, taken separately. U. S. exports & imports increased in physical volume, decreased in dollar-volume...
James John Davis, second Secretary of Labor since that Department was divorced from Commerce in 1913, celebrated his eighth year in office with a report touching all phases of the work in 1928. Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some...
...their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...
Last summer, not a little political capital was made-by Republicans as a warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues...