Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January when the automobile code came up for renewal, Chairman Williams and the other NIRB business member voted to have the code renewed practically as is. The other three board members voted against it. Thereupon Chairman Williams took his minority report to President Roosevelt, got it approved. Upshot was that pressure chiefly from Labor last week eased Samuel Clay Williams out of a job that he never wanted anyway...
When a robust man suddenly drops dead and the newspapers report "heart failure," the probability is that he died during an attack of angina pectoris. If he had gone to his doctor the day before, the doctor would probably have slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina...
Last week the "Silk City of America" made a rare move in municipal finance by publishing as paid advertising in local and Manhattan newspapers an annual report. Occasionally a reform municipal administration draws up balance sheets or income & outgo statements which most editors regard as sufficiently newsworthy to print free. But a formal advertisement was something new to Wall Street. Mayor John V. Hinchliffe touched on Paterson history, Paterson population (141,000), Paterson business advantages, forgotten Paterson products (overalls, wall paper, airplanes, jute, art glass). During 1934 the city was run on a strictly cash basis, reporting a surplus...
...same day Mayor Hinchliffe's report appeared, Asbury Park, N. J. (pop. 14,900) was placed in the hands of the State Municipal Finance Commission, receivers, in effect, for profligate New Jersey communities. Bondholders were pressing for payment on their defaulted securities...
...Darkness is an emotional tale. For the first 50 pages it reads like a minority report on literary atmosphere ; then the action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth...