Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scouts of America (membership: 2,221,157) celebrated their 39th anniversary with a report to the nation: during 1948 the Scouts collected 500,000 pounds of food for the Friendship Train, gathered 781,396,000 pounds of paper and planted 1,137,856 trees...
What made the story headline news in the U.S. was that MacArthur's G2, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, whose staff prepared the report, had included (as had Plain Talk) the names of two old workhorse propagandists for a Communist China. They are U.S. Journalist Agnes Smedley, who does most of her writing for leftish U.S. publications, and German-born Foreign Correspondent Guenther Stein, a British subject, who has written for the Christian Science Monitor. Willoughby's report charged that both were spies in the Sorge net, but it did not document the charge and both hotly denied...
...report belatedly released and why did the Army make such an occasion of it, when, after all, Sorge's prewar spy ring had worked against the Axis, not the U.S.? MacArthur's headquarters thought that it was a timely reminder of a fact which most Americans learned in the investigations of Communist spy rings in the U.S. and Canada. The most effective spies the U.S.S.R. has are apt not to be Russians, but Communists of other nationalities who are perfectly willing to work for headquarters in Moscow, without thought for the welfare of their own countries...
...small office in Wilmington, Del., E. Herbert Tinney performed an annual rite. A onetime accountant for Price, Waterhouse & Co., Herbert Tinney earns $5,700 a year as the only paid officer-secretary and assistant treasurer-of Christiana Securities Co. Last week he sent out Christiana's annual report. In 1948, the company had netted $28.4 million, a substantial gain over the $23.3 million earned in 1947. For each of Christiana's 150,000 common shares, this was an earning of $182.72. Tinney mailed out all but 2? a share of this to Christiana's select little band...
That gave Christiana the distinction of paying out 99.9% of earnings and the biggest dividend of any U.S. company required by law to make a public report. It also gave the public a clue to the income of the famed Du Pont clan. Christiana, formed in 1915, is in effect the Du Pont family's own investment trust, in which the Du Ponts own or control 79,859 shares. Christiana owns 27.42% of the common stock of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which, besides making explosives and Cellophane, owns 22.67% of General Motors and 60.17% of Remington Arms...