Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifts of $37,467 to the Fogg Museum of Harvard University were announced today by Edward W. Forbes, Director, in his annual report. Accessions included nine small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century B.C., a sixth-century Coptic frieze, and sixteen Roman Egypto-Roman terra cotta fligurines and fragments of Persian pottery...
...Sept. 7, 1916 Congress authorized President Wilson to retaliate against the Allies. The President promptly asked his Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, to report on the most practicable procedure. Secretary Redfield reported about a fortnight before the 1916 election: Interference with its Allied trade would mean economic ruin for the U. S. The plan was dropped...
...Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...
...last week, a 31-year-old millionaire named Howard Hughes was eating a combination breakfast and luncheon in Los Angeles. To this oilman-cineman-aviator came a telephone report that weather was fine all the way across the continent. Cramming a last mouthful Howard Hughes dashed out to Burbank, where for three days a stock model Northrop "Gamma" with a special engine had been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark...
...protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire of 200,000 committees, which in varying degrees were ostensibly protecting an investors' stake of $36,000,000,000, he will soon report his findings to Congress, probably with recommendations for toothy legislation...