Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country already requiring U. S. Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took his copy of the report to U. S. bankers, but his negotiations continued fruitless...
Last week, the day after President-Elect Hoover sailed good-willfully towards Latin-America, the State Department for some reason resurrected the Cumberland report from its eight-month obscurity, and published it. It was seen that Dr. Cumberland had recommended...
Secretary Kellogg, greatly agitated, stammered out two explanations. In the first place, he called attention to the fact that the Cumberland report was put out by the State Department only as "the personal views of Dr. Cumberland," not as an official program. In the second place, he made the incredible announcement that the State Department had not known Mr. Hoover was going to visit Nicaragua. Secretary Kellogg added, vaguely, that there were some suggestions in the Cumberland report of which he did not approve...
...soft coal, hydrogen and a catalyst under heavy pressure. The coal changed into gasolines, aromatics and other volatile hydrocarbons. This Berginization process the German Dye Trust is using under direction of Dr. Carl Krauch, able chemist, who was at Pittsburgh last week. With him was Dr. Bergius himself to report his further wizardry with hydrocarbons. By heating cellulose and: water or lignin and water, lie produced coal. "End coal" he ; calls it, and, like natural coal he could transmute it into gasoline and other fractional products...
...bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists did not make their everlasting fortunes was that one of them had secretly, timidly, limited the sale to five million...