Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer home the irreducibility of big Government expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
...Delegates' consideration was a report commissioned over six years ago, finished in 1937, by a special committee on administrative law headed by Washington's Colonel O. R. McGuire. The report recommended that each Federal agency: 1) publish its detailed rules & regulations within 90 days after the law it administers goes into effect, and 2) set up a special three-man dispute board to review contested decisions before they are taken into court...
Unimpressed, the Delegates approved the main provisions of the McGuire report, pledged A. B. A. support to getting them written into law. Going on to consider individual agencies, the Delegates judged the time unripe for comment on the Wages-&-Hours Administration (though they applauded its work to date), but they recommended three important amendments to NLRA...
...insisted that Recovery was the reason for the sharp decline in WPA rolls since November's elections, and thereby gave them an argument against a big new WPA fund. Meanwhile, Senators studied a report by a special committee under South Carolina's Byrnes which, if translated into law, would effectively wreck WPA as a permanent, billion-dollar political machine...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...