Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length the House voted, and the President's men won, 226 to 160. The conference report then arrived in the Senate for final approval. It had to lie untouched for hours while its foes used up time debating the Relief act, which also had to be finished that day. It was dinner time before Senator Wagner, in charge of the money bill, could bring...
Last week the Tribune, pawing an A. P. regional report for dirt on the New Deal, let out a roar. Its 857,963 readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond, the Tribune exulted: WOODSTOCK GETS POSTMASTER, BUT WHO'S DIETER...
That evening the Times read the A. P. report a little more carefully than its rival, informed its 359,844 readers that Mr. Dieter had been nominated for Naperville, Ill. (pop. 5,118), "perhaps 30 ... miles from here." The Times had even called him up. "Dieter answered the telephone," reported the Times, "and revealed without hesitation that he is Edward M. Dieter, 70, pharmacist and postmaster of Naperville. . . . That's all there was to it, Tribune. Anybody could have done...
Ever since 1860 the U. S. has been almost entirely dependent on Europe for one very essential chemical: potash.* Last year the U. S. made history by producing 52% of its potash at home. Recently the annual report of the Bureau of Mines revealed that fact. Last week the consequences of it became apparent: Europe launched a potash war to recover the U. S. market...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...