Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
...reached the saturation point for long-winded speeches," cried a rebellious delegate at President Homer Martin who was orating at the United Automobile Workers second annual convention in Milwaukee last week. "Why aren't the committees ready to report...
...time came last week for Dr. Grieshaber to ask for radio pratique, he decided that the fever and nausea among the Hansa'?, crew was the result of their inhaling hydrocyanic acid gas left in the hold when she was last fumigated against rats. No law required him to report this kind of accident to Chief Quarantine Officer Akin. So the Hansa steamed past Quarantine, docked, debarked 993 passengers. An inspector of the U. S. Immigration Service, Dr. Henry M. Friedman, went aboard for a look-round. What he saw in the crew's hospital sent him running...
...educational and charitable trust (see p. 12) may become the world's greatest philanthropic enterprise, but until it gets under way the greatest will continue to be the Rockefeller Foundation. According to the latest balance sheet, made public last week in the Foundation's annual report for 1936, it had assets of $185,000,000 of which $151,459,000 has still been unappropriated...
These facts & figures were set forth last April in a president's review by the Foundation's able new President Raymond Elaine Fosdick. Last week this review was included in a full annual report, detailing all the ultimate capillary destinations of the flow of gold which last year poured from the heart of the Rockefeller philanthropic empire in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center-much but by no means all of it under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees. The following is a sample- very far short...