Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt does anything to curb the flow of foreign investment, he may make some informal agreement with Europe whereby some of the European earnings from investment here will be applied to settle the war-debt account. At present European governments, for various purposes, are anxious to tap the abundant reserves of American capital and seek new loans from Washington and Wall Street...
...definitely a small man and Italians were surprised that Göring did not turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed...
...ground that it would irritate Negrophobes. Mr. Kaltenborn, most literate of the commentators, offered an old interview with Spain's late Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. Hearst's Edwin C. Hill wrote on political bosses, concluded that hypocrisy was a bad thing. Floyd Gibbons gave an unexciting account of his attempts to broadcast from Madrid. Russian-born, English-bred Boake Carter filled six pages on former King Edward VIII, closed with the information that Edward was now Duke of Windsor...
About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality. Therefore the presence in Manhattan last week of a young Vienna psychiatrist, who cures such disoriented wits by means of insulin, created great stir among doctors, great hopes among relatives of schizophrenics...
...public service agencies. He asserted that delay, due to so-called bureaucratic red-tape, was a result of the difficulty in interpreting laws, knowing what evidence to accept and exclude, and making a decision fully backed by the most minute detail. If all these factors were not taken into account, endless litigation would quickly follow. But the greatest cause for delay, Eastman believes, is the vast undertaking of collecting data on large interstate organizations...