Word: reports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy Opossum. . . . Precautions will be taken to preserve his health and spirits for the further needs of Prince Georges County high school teams...
...ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist of the U. S. Department of Commerce, declared that sex appeal is no longer a business asset, counseled gravely that Prince Charmings met in the business world "may not be charming. . . may marry another woman . . . may die." Ladylike laughter greeted the report of the educational committee. Over $155,000 had been disbursed during the year. Beneficiaries were 1,000 children-999 girls...
...Officers from H. M. S. Rodney: leave cancelled. Report back aboard ship at once...
Eaton. Persistent through denials was the rumor that Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland steelman and banker, had purchased working control of United Light & Power Co., midwestern utility with $500,000,000 assets and 1928 gross earnings of $89,000,000. The report was that the Eaton purchase was from the Koppers-Mellon interests. Reports also mentioned the Insull, Bonbright and North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor...
...Paris last week, artistic Frenchmen worried over a report that members of the Comédie Française were to make talking cinemas for U. S. producers. French cinema exhibitors worried more over the news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...