Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring was promptly silenced...
This decision naturally brought whoops from labor, groans from management. Documented by a close-packed, 75-page report, the board's findings were notable for their uncompromising viewpoint and for giving the lie direct to some of management's assertions, particularly that railroad wages were among the highest in the nation. (On the contrary, a report of the National Industrial Conference Board last week put railroad wages below utility wages but well above a composite of 25 manufacturing industries...
Within 30 minutes after the New York Stock Exchange announced Richard Whitney & Co.'s insolvency last March 8 the SEC started an investigation. Last week SEC issued a three-volume report of the findings. As absorbing as a detective story, as revealing as an autobiography, the 1,619 pages contain several heretofore undisclosed facts...
Thus Man's Hope is a new kind of book, at once a literal report of the Loyalist side of the Civil War and a novel tracing the fates of some 20 leading characters who fight in it. It combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers...
...birds. No more dramatic flights have been recorded than those of the pastel-colored passenger pigeons-Audubon guessed a billion in one flock-which once streamed across U. S. skies. The speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised, apricot-breasted model for some future monument to vanished U. S. frontiers...