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Word: reporter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several members of the class are heading the movement, led by Curtis Clay '41 and Charles Clark '41, and are starting to canvas the various dormitories. They report that over two-thirds of the men so far approached have signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Petition to Abolish Elections Schedule 22 Meetings on Concentration | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment of a commission to haggle over the $20,000,000 owed the contractors, the report to be made in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Pay Day | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week the No. 1 scandal in U. S. colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cutthroat | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...children were not the only ones who needed instruction. He rounded up 1,000 adults of varying degrees of literacy and for two years tested them intensively. He wanted to find out what happens to people's reading habits and ability after they leave school. Last week his report, How Adults Read, which the Carnegie Foundation helped finance, showed these major findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First R | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week the board-three B. A. C. men headed by Miller C. Foster of the Department of Commerce, and Montana Aeronautics Commissioner Fred B. Sheriff -issued a preliminary report. Northwest's veteran pilot, Nick Mamer, was completely exonerated. Helpless at the controls after part of the tail structure of his plane "fluttered" off, Pilot Mamer could do nothing but await death as his ship plunged to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tail Trouble | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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