Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhausted his original $55,000 appropriation, Senator Robert Marion La Follette last week asked the Senate for another $50,000 to carry on the work of his Civil Liberties Committee. As a sample of the Committee's work the shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette...
...officialdom when the La Follette findings were released. Far from demonstrating remorse, officials were preparing to prosecute, for conspiracy to riot, some 65 strikers, sympathizers and bystanders who were arrested during the riot. Moreover a six-man coroner's jury had just white-washed the police with a report of "justifiable homicide...
...reservoirs of employment. Professor Ogburn suggested that if in 1900 the U. S. had had national planners who foresaw the development of the telephone, the airplane, the cinema, the automobile, the radio and the rayon industry, the pattern of society today might be different from what it is. The report recommended establishment of a board which would keep trad; of developments in and try to foresee the sociological impacts of 13 new technologies which seem to be gathering headway for a booming future...
...last month than in June 1936. No sudden rise, this activity was the latest stage in a cotton textile comeback slowly achieved in the face of competition from synthetics and from abroad. By the end of the month, according to the U. S. Census Bureau's report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton year from August i to August i. Best previous year: 1926-27, with...
SINGLE TO SPAIN-Keith Scott Watson-Duiton ($2). Light report by a young English journalist who joined the International Column in Spain, soon transferred to press corps to warm his cold feet...