Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest is in stocks, bonds, mortgages, bank accounts. At year's end there was a cash balance of some $580,000. These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week's report complained again & again of insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...
...journalistic reticence was first broken in 1929 when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch specifically mentioned syphilis in a report of a St. Louis meeting of the Na tional Society for the Prevention of Blind ness. Last year breaks in the taboo began appearing far & wide. The Chicago Tribune published three full-page articles on syphilis in its Sunday editions. In New York, the News (circulation 1,629,000), put on a campaign to publicize syphilis with news stories, editorials, cartoons, has sold 16,054 reprints at 5? each. The more conservative New York Herald Tribune and New York Times began...
...that U. S. building construction in 1936 will be 50 or 60% greater than last year, members of the U. S. Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group of citizens public accommodations...