Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bilbo report was one of the stiffest condemnations of a Senator by his colleagues ever to be submitted to the upper house. Despite the evasions, gags and protestations of "The Man" and of pro-Bilbo witnesses during the seven-day hearing, the committee had found Bilbo guilty of accepting money or gratuities from at least half a dozen war contractors. "The donation or ... solicitation of political contributions from Government contractors," said the committee coldly, ". . . is prohibited by a federal criminal statute...
...annual message on the state of the Union. But it needed a final polishing before it could be taken up to the Hill on Jan. 6. And the President also had a budget message to deliver on the 8th, his recommendations to accompany the Economic Council's report (TIME, Dec. 30) to be given two days later...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...
...Hooper] says that 92,550 homes are called each month [for Hooper's special Coast rating report] on the Pacific web coverage area. ... On a 30-day breakdown, it gives about 3,000 calls daily . . . on the entire Pacific Coast. That's 108 calls per half-hour period. The current report shows 35% average sets in use. That means less than 40 respondents giving the Pacific Coast pace for half-hour listening! ... On that small a sample, Mr. Hooper can get odds from any professional gambler that ... he will eventually hit a night when not one single respondent...
...Falsification and oversimplification!" retorted 48-year-old Charles Ernest Hooper. "In the first place, on the Coast we don't make a report on one broadcast because our sample is too small. We wait and make a monthly report, using the statistics on four broadcasts. In the second place, we don't make the same number of calls every hour. . . . We call somewhat more at night than during the day. At night we average 165 calls a half-hour -660 a month on any show in the report...