Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike was settled after several weeks by Mr. W. O. Briggs himself, who met the strike committee. Meanwhile, some of the strikers' demands had already been met, such as pay for a minimum number of hours to a man asked to report for work, for whom there was no work available...
Even that committee's report would scarcely justify TIME'S statements today. Moreover, the management, so far as labor relations are concerned, is entirely different today from what...
...fine colonial home. There she entertained all the bigwigs she thought might help her to realize her political ambitions. Her lavish parties became common talk among Los Angeles newshawks, but they were never fortunate enough to attend, as Queen Helen always shunned publicity. Once they were able to report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas and blonde wigs if their hair had not been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white...
Afterward, Lawyer Goddard & Dr. Kirkwood made no desperate air dash back to London but comfortably entrained at Marseilles, and Mr. Goddard. when he reached London, went directly to Mr. Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street. Assuming, and everyone in Fleet Street did assume, that Dr. Kirkwood's report established the non-pregnancy of Mrs. Simpson, many benefits might flow from this. Among others, Lawyer Goddard, according to the British divorce law, could ask the Court to make Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi absolute not in the usual six months (on April 27), but in three months...
...there was a report that Harry Sinclair had been elected board chairman of a West Texas Company called Rio Grande Oil, which had a branch in California. Rio Grande soon slid to the brink of receivership and Oilman Sinclair denied that he had anything to do with the company. Just ten months later, however, Harry Sinclair's new Consolidated Oil Corp. acquired control of Rio Grande with the help of Elisha Walker's Interstate Equities Corp. in a deal which has since aroused the curiosity of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Thus, at about the time Richfield was succumbing...