Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Report Card...
...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and his very rich wife returned last week from their purgatorial year in Russia, to report to Franklin Roosevelt and make ready to go to Belgium, his next step toward Ambassadorial eminence. But their presence was completely eclipsed by the arrival four days earlier of another Ambassador named Joseph. Home from his complete capture of London was "Joe" Kennedy with flashing smiles for the press, a "long and somewhat cheerless" report to the President about conditions abroad, emphatic denials of any mission more secret than attending Joe Jr.'s class day exercises at Harvard...
...more of his unfailingly intimate, persuasive radio heart-to-hearts with the nation. The sarcasm of his opening crack was a key to his mood. A second key, politics, was in his fifth sentence: "As part of the democratic process, your President is again taking an opportunity to report ... to the real rulers of this country-the voting public...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...
...Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Economic Adviser Cyril Upham of the Treasury for the specific purpose of rearranging and simplifying bank examinations and investment policies. Arrayed with Mr. Diggs are Messrs. Crowley and Upham. Mr. Eccles is a distinct minority. When the committee sends its report to President Roosevelt Mr. Eccles will probably send a report too. Mr. Roosevelt will then have to decide between stiff bank control and easy money...