Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major problems facing the young, married, Harvard instructor is where to live. The problem arises from the fact that the salary of the junior teachers is, in many cases, insufficient to support a wife and family in a decent style in Cambridge. In their recent report The Committee of Eight stated: "the unsatisfactory housing and schooling conditions in Cambridge now tempt young teachers with relatively small salaries to live elsewhere or to add to their incomes by doing outside work which interferes with their scholarly pursuits...
...chairman of that 'punch-pulling' Student Council Committee, I had the opportunity to get a really intimate picture of the condition," stated the head of the Committee that wrote a twenty page report on tutoring schools two years...
...spent the following year in England as a Rodes Scholar, mixing academic with journalistic endeavor. Leaving Cambridge, he joined the Philadelphia Public Ledger, for which he covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper...
Most sensational piece of evidence unearthed by the Guild was a memorandum from Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, found on the desk of Times Auditor Harry Weinstock. The memorandum referred to a Communist leaflet circulated through the Times. It said: "The spies report that some of the auditing people are back of this. Maybe it will amuse Mr. Weinstock to try to find...
...Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...