Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends...
...right of our employes to form their own organizations for collective bargaining ... is fundamental. We have recognized that right for more than 20 years. . . . The trial examiner's report recommends that the existing collective bargaining organizations of our employes be disestablished. That should be for our employes to decide. . . . We intend, therefore, to contest the findings of the report...
...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
Last week Harvard had already heard from 50 would-be applicants for next September's Nieman Fellowships. Probably twelve will be granted. Meanwhile, an "interim report" by Curator MacLeish modestly measured progress to date. Statistics: each Fellow takes five or more courses; the Baltimore Sun's Reporter Frank Hopkins leads with ten, ranging from American Constitutional Government to Byzantine History. Favorite instructors include Felix Frankfurter and Dr. Heinrich Brüning, ex-Chancellor of Germany, and Granville Hicks...
...open battle when Mr. Catchings saw that a majority of directors sided with Coster, led by representatives of the banking interests that had helped him finance the company. Rather than start a public row to the detriment of the company's reputation, Mr. Catchings issued a report and resigned. Said he last week: "I told them, but they wouldn't accept it, that Mr. Coster's reports were tricked and misleading...