Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, said the report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...
University of Oregon set up an outraged howl, one president of the Board of Higher Education was ousted and another resigned, citizens petitioned and balloted, "Dads'" and "Mothers' " clubs passed resolutions, politicians maneuvered, the Press raged and Chancellor Kerr resigned but did not depart. Finally a scathing report by an American Association of University Professors committee last month (TIME, June 10) made it necessary to do something. But by that time it looked as if no sensible U. S. educator could be persuaded to risk his shins, even for $10,000 per year...
...North China the cockiness of Japanese was such that when a Japanese officer motoring from Peiping last week observed that a single Japanese field telegraph pole had somehow caught fire he stepped on the accelerator, roared into Tientsin at 60 m. p. h. to report "the outrage." Soon a Japanese platoon had sallied forth into the very midst of hundreds of evacuating Chinese troops to "punish the offenders." The fact that four Japanese army scouts motoring in the wilds north of Peiping were detained by some Chinese officials overnight was reported in Japanese newsorgans under screaming headlines suggesting that "this...
...many of these illiquetiable loans to officials go back to 1929 speculation. ... It is noteworthy, perhaps, that a hundred years ago American banks were required to publish the total of their loans to members of their official family and their corporations, and that Canadian banks are still required to report similar figures...
Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper made public his Department's report on the accident. Based on two weeks of hearings in which 59 witnesses filled 907 pages of testimony, the report blamed the crash principally on bad weather and inaccurate weather reporting by government and company meteorologists, found TWA guilty of five "inexcusable violations" of Federal airline regulations for which it may be fined a maximum of $2,500-the first such fine in U. S. airline history...