Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...
Franklin Roosevelt's display of pique occurred last week on the first morning of a week-long holiday. Next day in somewhat better humor the President settled down to the tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed...
Issued by the U. S. Public Health Service last week was a report on the prevalence of communicable diseases. So far in 1938 there have been fewer cases than usual of influenza (off 87% from last year, 50% from 1935 and 1936), meningitis (off 30% from the five-year average), scarlet fever (off 10% from the five-year average), diphtheria (up from last year but below the average). Diseases of which there are epidemics...
...Great Lakes region, and there have been about three times the average number of cases. The epidemic started in November and by February had already produced almost as many cases as had occurred by March or April in the epidemics of 1934 and 1935. Said the Public Health Service report: "The number of reported cases is still increasing and so it seems likely that the present epidemic will be more severe than the two previous...
...wishing to try out for the spring competition of the Porcellian Club will please report to 1324 Massachusetts Avenue at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Although upperclassmen will get preference, no Freshmen will be turned away. The first meeting will be primarily an organizational one, with actual competitive activity being deferred until after the spring recess...