Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Margery's adherents forswore their allegiance after that, but others remained faithful. Psychologist Henry Clay McComas of Johns Hopkins University, whose hobby is exposing mediums, gathered two distinguished colleagues, a physicist and another psychologist, and journeyed to Boston to make a scientific report on a Margery seance. They were allowed to feel "ectoplasmic rods" supposedly sprouting from her thighs, but came to the conclusion afterwards that the rods were animal intestines stuffed with cotton and stiffened with wire...
...first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty O'Connor handed Franklin Roosevelt his resignation as titular head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans to run for Governor of California. Last week Jefty dispatched to Congress the 75th annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency - a 208-page booklet summarizing not only the status of U. S. national banks as of last June 30 but also Jefty O'Connor's accomplishments in almost five years of work...
...evidence of banking recovery embodied in the statistics of his report, Jefty O'Connor had to share honors with those two other Federal agencies which also watch over the national banking system, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That only twelve national bank's have failed since Mr. O'Connor took office-compared to 1,750 in the previous decade-was largely the result of the fact that banking was the only U. S. industry which was allowed to pass through the depression wringer. And the fact that deposits reached a record high...
Ever since Conant's report was first made public, wide comment has resulted on the policy to limit the number of students. This criticism reached its height last Tuesday when the Cambridge Union of University Teachers voted to send the President a statement expressing "strong dissent" with his annual report...
...Close of its report (which I am sorry the Crimson did not publish in full) the Union itself grants the advisability of producing intellectuals beyond society's capacity to absorb them. Then where lies the issue? "What we urge," they write, "is that the fundamental problem be faced." What they apparently desire is that Mr. Conant take it upon himself to cure the social system, as well as adapt the University to it: and isn't that a rather large order even for a university president? E. Y. Hartshorne...