Word: account
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just read your biased account of political events under the head of The Presidency, in TIME, July 31, and I want you to know how your account of the defeat of the Neutrality Bill appears to one who has got more respect for honor than he has for conniving, self-aggrandizing politicians...
...seamen, bank clerks and farm association members to the rolls; 5) to obligate the Government to match States dollar for dollar up to $20 per month for old-age pensions; 6) sharply to limit the size of the old-age reserve account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal by Texas' Tom Connally that the Government match the States two dollars for one up to $15, an attempt to help poor States live up to pension promises...
...days later Mr. Chamberlain made it clear that he now knew it. He began a long answer to Laborite Philip Noel Baker with an ironic, Alice-in-Wonderland account of his difficulties in debate, said he had trouble answering Mr. Noel Baker because "he is always trying to push the Government to go a little further in its statements than I think it ought to go, and it puts me in the position, in refusing to put my foot on unsound ground, that I seem to be willing to go less far than actually...
...claiming that Indian liquors contained Vitamin B and made for healthy babies. This prohibitionists answered by declaring that drunkards were violent and that there was "no need to drink Vitamin B and beat your wife." But on financial grounds, wets were powerful. In many an Indian province liquor taxes account for 25% of total revenue. Liquor consumption has been increasing: tax in 1920 brought in $23,000,000; in 1928, $82,000,000; in 1938, $350,000,000. Bombay's revenue losses were estimated at $10,000,000 annually. To compensate for this, Treasury experts could offer only higher...
...Herbert Olivecrona, a disciple of Yale's famed Neurologist Harvey Gushing. Since surgeons usually use local anesthetics for brain operations (ether may congest brain blood vessels), Poet Karinthy remained acutely aware of everything that happened to him. Last year, he published the first patient's-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical history. This week the English translation of Karinthy's remarkable book appeared...