Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iraqi proposal was only one of a number under consideration. Meanwhile, a British commission sent to the Holy Land to report on the workability of partition was laboriously drafting its conclusions, expected to reveal them in three weeks. In Rome, British Ambassador Lord Perth conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano on several topics, one of which was reported to have been the possibility of diverting further Jewish emigration from Europe to Ethiopia, rather than Palestine...
...Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement for marital happiness. Highlights...
...look at the pay of top-notch scientists employed in industry. In American Men of Science he found 72 industrial savants whose names were starred for distinguished research (by vote of their colleagues). He then hunted up as many of their salaries as he could find in the Treasury report to the Ways & Means Committee...
...these, Dr. Thorndike reported last week in Science, 27 were employed by companies not listed in the Treasury report, and 29 others were unlisted presumably because they received less than $15,000 yearly. Of the remaining 16, ten got $25,000 or more, and four made more than $50,000. The top four were Photography Expert Charles E. K. Mees of Eastman Kodak Co. ($54,000); Physicist-Engineer Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories ($55,000); Chemist Charles M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ($65,000); Chemist George Henry Clowes of Eli Lilly...
...Government holdings - $21,000,000. That left $39,000,000 of miscellaneous investments. Allied long claimed that divulging these holdings would hurt its trade advantages. Last week it looked as though SEC, in persuading Allied to tell all, had promised to keep certain facts secret. Allied's report to SEC, which was made public by the New York Stock Exchange, still left $4,000,000 worth of holdings unexplained...