Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times larger than Italy, but it has not a single river, and the poor people live mainly on dates and date paste. Of the 700.000 inhabitants some 500,000 are Mohammedans, about a third of these Negroes. Jews number about 27,000, Italians some 36,000, and sporadic nomads account for the rest. That Italy owns Libya she owes to her famed Socialist, the late Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier, staged the Libyan War in 1911. He was hotly accused by moderates and conservatives of "unconstitutional conduct in declaring war without the consent of Parliament," but nothing succeeds...
...week's supply at the present rate of consumption (more than 50,000 tons per month). Nearly one-half of all U. S. zinc is used to galvanize iron and steel and another one-fourth goes into brass, which is a copper-zinc alloy. Storage batteries account for nearly one-third of all lead, with paint a poor second. In good times building takes 10%, cable coverings 20% of U. S. lead.- And all these big lead and zinc customers are either booming or slated to boom...
Disillusioned also was Del Baker, the Tigers' coach, who last week testified that Jerry McCarthy had bought 400 shares of Tack for a discretionary Baker account at $25 per share. But while the customers' man sold his sisters' Tack holdings at a profit, he failed to do as much for Del Baker. Through friends of Mickey Cochrane, Jerry McCarthy got another Tack customer in the person of a Mrs. Kathryn Smith, who bought 100 shares at $17.75 per share, saw it go up, finally got rid of it at $16.50 because she "didn't want...
...than price and profit. Franklin Roosevelt was its speaker. At its snowy tables were arrayed the immaculate bosoms of Cabinet members, of all loyal Senators and party wheel-horses who had not been sent into the field, of lobbyists to whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director...
Lanky, agreeable, fond of talking about himself, Reporter Rogers was well paid, drew many a big bonus for big stories. Once an unknown benefactor deposited $1,000 in the Rogers checking account. At Christmas his mailbox so overflowed with cards and gifts that once he remarked: "The whores and hoodlums always remember...