Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical commotion caused by this report rose a burning question: Was it another proof of Relativity, or did it revive the ether concept, which has no place in a relativistic world? The answer to that question depends on whether the observed effects were due to absolute motion through an ether, or to relativistic motion, the motion of the particles relative to Dr. Ives' apparatus-a point which was not settled last week. In Princeton, Dr. Einstein accepted the experiment as another prop for Relativity. Some of his admirers agreed with him, but some of his critics thought the experiment...
...Splawn report, result of Franklin Roosevelt's two months ago appointing a three-man committee of ICCommissioners, Splawn, Eastman and Mahaffie, to concoct a remedy for the railroad crisis, specifically said that the question of wages should be left to the railroads. Its other recommendations dealt with ways of lending money to the roads, increasing revenues, speeding reorganizations. Last week, after consideration by RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, Senator Burton Wheeler and representatives of railroad management and labor, these recommendations were out of the "conference stage," on the way to becoming legislative proposals...
...question of complicated legislation but a simple issue of increasing income or reducing expenditures. The former was ruled out when ICC last March refused to raise freight rates more than 5.3%. So last week the Association of American Railroads, meeting 100-strong in Chicago, took the Splawn report at face value, voted to cut railway wages 15% as of July I. Estimated saving: $250,000,000 a year...
...since been restored and garnished with a further 7½% rise. Now, as the A. A. R. last week pointed out, the railroad situation is even worse than in 1932. In January 1938 the railroad operating net was 32% under January 1932. Last week the first 37 roads to report March earnings showed an aggregate decrease of 80% from last year. First quarter earnings reports indicated staggering losses in almost every case. Samples...
Never in the U. S. history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head...