Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to find reasons for Mr. Whitney's downfall in the light of his integrity and personal success. One report says his house violated the Martin Act, which regulates the sale of stocks and bonds; another, that the charges to be preferred against him involve his connection with a liquor concern, in which he held 12,000 shares. Obviously, it is unfair to judge his business or himself until he has had a chance to speak at the March 17 hearing. But what happens to Mr. Whitney and his firm will not be remembered so much as what their failure...
Herter is a member of the Legislative Special Committee to Investigate Taxation which has just finished its report on the tax situation. The report advocates a 2 percent sales tax on all transactions to relieve taxation of real estate and to provide more revenue for the increased cost of Massachusetts government. Herter will support the findings of the Committee...
Signers of this report included three men who, as members of President Hoover's Commission, had voted the other way. Two of them were University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd and American Council on Education's George F. Zook. Most significant about-face was made by the third, the Rev. George Johnson, director of education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. For the Committee had won Catholic support of Federal aid by recommending that States be allowed, if they chose, to give part of the Federal money to parochial schools...
...days after the report was published, the proposal to aid parochial schools had raised a small but ominous cloud. Said fiery Professor George S. Counts of Columbia's Teachers College at a convention of the Progressive Education Association in Manhattan: "I think that is a very dangerous and vicious recommendation, an entering wedge to destroy the public-school system...
...water damaging Los Angeles to the extent of three million and devestating much Southern California life and property, it is easy to think that the series of floods in America constitute a westward movement. Although little truth lies in certain movie heroes became real for a day, ob-the report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States will...