Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your TIME, July 23, on page 8, you have a little memorandum to the effect that Herman Blum, Textile Manufacturer of Philadelphia, "has come out for Smith on account of the tariff." Exactly the opposite is the fact. I am, individually, and as Chairman of the Republican League of Philadelphia, supporting the candidacy of Herbert Hoover...
...acknowledge receipt of yours of July 23rd. ... "In view of your conviction that your duty as chairman of the National Democratic Committee will monopolize your time . . . and on account of the importance to the corporation as well as to yourself of making it unmistakably clear that the corporation takes no part in political affairs, we are constrained to accept your request to be relieved of all your duties in connection with the corporation. . . . "Sincerely yours, "Alfred P. Sloan...
...your issue of July 16 under the department caption PEOPLE-"Names make news" there is a paragraph headed Tallulah Bankhead, followed by an account of a man's jumping from the liner Rochambeau into the Atlantic Ocean. In view of your avowed passion for accuracy may I point out the following errors in the account...
...peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill. .It was a description, by an officer of the .law in Pennsylvania, of an orgy last week conducted by other Pennsylvania officers of the law in defiance of a law which, they afterward observed, few persons of their acquaintance believe in anyway...