Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spencer indulged in a spectacular reversal of form. Hurrying to La Porte to try to annul the marriage, Mrs. Spencer announced that she now thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents. Mrs. Spencer also doubted...
...total of $443,000,000 and profits will reach, if not 1929's $30,000,000, the $25,000,000-$27,000,000 level of 1927-28. The difference is that whereas the greater proportion of 1929 sales was by mail order, today mail orders account for only some 40% of Sears Roebuck's business and more than a third of the stores which are now its cornerstone are situated in the comparatively small but populous area of the northeastern seaboard States...
Beginning his account with a description of Washington during Jefferson's administrations, Author Bowers details the uncomfortable 11-day trip from New York by stagecoach, the hunting within the city limits, the horse-racing and card-playing that provided most of the entertainment for Washington dwellers, the strange mixture of physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet...
...Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton's mistress. The President defended Peggy, reorganized his Cabinet largely on her account. After John Eaton died in 1856, Peggy married an Italian dancing master. She soon divorced him, returned to the U. S., lived quietly in Washington until her death...
Last week Victor Heiser began his memoirs with a seven-page account of his Johnstown flood experiences that proved to be the most vivid and interesting of the 544 pages in the book. Otherwise a rambling, ill-arranged, badly-proportioned, autobiographical miscellany, An American Doctor's Odyssey contained enough such passages scattered through it to make it the September choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club and to reward patient readers who were willing to wade through Dr. Reiser's account of his successes to find them...