Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking of the safety of his own home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham Steed. "I wonder whether the Nazi authorities have allowed the full report of his speech to be printed and broadcast. . . . Colonel Lindbergh's frank, truthful and courageous words have rendered a notable service to Europe and perhaps to the entire world...
...being placed in the hands of politicians of the American Dental Association," a new Council on Dental Education & Infirmaries, dominated by practicing dentists in the A. D. A., was organized last week and told to get busy at once. Among its duties it was ordered: 1) "to investigate and report on dissensions between dental schools and units of organized dentistry"; 2) "to find out why it is not possible for students to transfer from one Class A dental school to another"; 3) "to interest State Legislatures and private capital in the adequate support and endowment of dental education...
Left to the generosity of his employer was the sum which Joseph Patrick Kennedy was to receive for writing a report on Paramount Pictures (TIME, June 29). Last week it was learned that the sum would be $50,000, only one-third of the fee the onetime Securities & Exchange Commission chairman received for devising a recapitalization plan for Radio Corp. of America (TIME, Feb. 10). From the mephitic mystery that cloaked Mr. Kennedy's report ever since he handed it in early in June it looked as if Paramount had certainly got its money's worth...
Hushed was any discussion of the report at the annual Paramount meeting last month, though Mr. Kennedy was understood to have urged that a copy be sent to each & every security holder. Finally the company offered to show any of its interested owners a prepared summary, which quoted Mr. Kennedy at length but omitted confidential figures and some of its author's more acidulous opinions of Paramount personalities. This summary was not released for publication but it did not take the Press long to find obliging stockholders who would accompany newshawks to Paramount's inner offices in Manhattan...
This was the nub of the Kennedy report. Though the management has been turned upside down, Mr. Kennedy did not proceed with his work, his connection with the company having ended July 1. Old Chairman Adolph Zukor had already been shipped to Hollywood to try to straighten out production. President John Edward Otterson was fired, Barney Balaban, an experienced showman taking his place (TIME, July 13). Other showmen were added to the board to replace businessmen directors. Since Mr. Kennedy first looked at it last May, the Paramount Picture has brightened considerably...