Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girl guides, asked by tourists, "Do you have to report on our movements to the OGPU?" glibly reply: "No, indeed. But of course our manager asks us a good many questions to make sure the tourists are satisfied...
...from the Cardinals down to the last priest, wished they knew where Der Führer was last week. Was it with or without his approval that the No. 2 Nazi, Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, had ordered his secret police to eavesdrop at every church and report for later punishment clerics who "falsely employ the authority of their spiritual position for political purposes"-i. e. criticize the Nazi State. "The Church dare not," declared General Göring in his passionate and somewhat incoherent decree, "call upon God against the State-an atrocity that we experience openly...
...Grand Duchess Marie's royal memoirs, adopted the suggestion. Expecting a few bushels of submitted clippings, they got bales. More than a third of the 1,581 items warranted serious consideration. Excited by the response and quality of the material from the nation's most obscure reporters, Editors McMillen & Lord at once decided that "our prize offer was too puny for an event of such importance." So they upped the main prize by one silver meat platter, one vegetable dish to match and one trip to New York, created a number of special awards, scattered gratuitous $5 bounties...
Chrysler Corp., in its semi-annual report issued this week, showed 818,700,000 profits-more than 100% better than during the first half of 1934. Chrysler sales, 487,157 units, were the largest of any six months in the corporation's history...
Last week the Wall Street Journal tabulated statements of the first 25 U. S. corporations to report for the June quarter, found aggregate profits up 7% from the same three months of 1934. The gain for the six-month period was almost precisely the same. For a slightly smaller group which had published comparable reports in the past, June quarter profits were 40% above 1933, 102% above 1932, but still below 1931. No major steel companies had reported by last week but the rest of U. S. industry had been fairly sampled...