Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity to shift the Power fight from the courts to the people's forum...
...Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany, now the chief Catholic sore spot in Europe...
Chairman William says labor was one of the main reasons the company fell so far and so fast. About two years ago truck drivers, charged with as many as 650 steamer baskets a day, began to report that longshoremen refused to handle the baskets because the drivers were nonunion. The drivers organized. Then they themselves objected to taking hot goods from non-union warehousemen. The warehousemen organized. So, in turn, did the grocery clerks, and the office force, until Charles & Co. was 100% union. All this, says Chairman William, cost the firm between $52,000 and $55,000 annually...
Speakers will explain Harvard plan to bring 20 refugee students here on scholarships next year, and will outline the general nature of the refugee problem and the forces being marshalled to meet it. Lane will report on the progress of the drive for contributions to date...
Sullivan told the educators how the Council has helped the University to formulate its policies in the last 25 years. He cited as examples such work as the report on the tutorial system in 1928 and the analysis of the University budget...