Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manners toward women, taboos change with the times. Fifty years ago the word leg was not used in polite mixed company. Today, at respectable dinner tables, words are casually uttered that would make Victorians blush, blanch or burst. Last week a college professor made a scientific report on the use of words that are still "socially questionable" in some circles...
...chemically pure crystals. His first physiological tests of the crystalline hormone seemed to show that it was simply a milk-secreting stimulus. He got no growth response of the abdominal organs, no increase of blood sugar. Other tests for the Riddle reactions were in progress when he made his report. In Cold Spring Harbor last week, Dr. Riddle said he had received some of Dr. White's crystals, but that he had not yet satisfied himself that they were pure prolactin...
...particularly with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and zealous Indian Commissioner John Collier. Last week in Atlantic City, missionary chagrin over this state of affairs spilled over. At a Conference of Friends of the Indian-representing two secular Indian associations and Indian mission workers of 28 Protestant churches-a report cited lawlessness, drinking, vice, illegal marriages in Indian communities, blamed the "hands-off policy" of the Government...
...During all the years prior to the present Administration," said the report, "the story of the progress of the red men in adopting standards of Christian civilization stands out ... as an impressive illustration of the effectiveness of co-operative effort and sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America...
While the decision itself is an example of Government control of transportation, the Commission's reason for making it harks back to Adam Smith. The report pointed out that California is an area where millions travel by private automobile; that if only 7% to 8% of the motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...