Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While first-rate "human interest" items continue to pour from the White House, TIME will report them. Example: Sequel to the vest-stud affair is the well-authenticated report that the President's embarrassment was caused by one of his sons making off with the studs, neglecting to replace them in the Presidential bureau drawer...
Then Senator Fletcher, with tears in his eyes, swung into action. He cited the report of a Presidential Board of Review which had approved the Canal for WPA. ("No board of engineers ever exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western...
...United lost $2,283,525.31. In 1935 it lost only $1,392.81. This encouraging report was due in part to a 22% rise in passenger and cargo revenue, in part to a new depreciation policy changing all planes from a three-year to a four-year life basis. The fact that United still shows a loss is due, according to President William A. Patterson, to the inadequacy of its airmail subsidy rate, which was 12% less per pound-mile in 1935 than in 1934 and only about half what other domestic airlines received...
What is there left? First of all, there is the administration of undergraduate affairs, such as elections, which is carried on by individuals. Secondly, there is the valuable report-making function which is carried on in committees. Thirdly, there is the function as a safety-valve for both University Hall and students in infrequent emergencies which is carried on by the Council as a whole...
...these activities the Council only performs the report-making function above reproach. Its administration of undergraduate affairs has been marked by inefficiency which well-considered plans and rules could have avoided. It has failed to develop its function as "safety valve" to the point where it is exerting, the greatest possible benefit to the College and the student body...