Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bowl of roses to your editorial staff for their fearlessness in reporting the recent crash of a United Air Liner in Crow Creek Valley near Cheyenne [TIME, Oct. 14]. Why? Because I imagine the U. A. L. is quite a large advertising account but you may tell the executives of the United Air Line I intend to make use of their fine plane service as soon as I accumulate the necessary funds. No single crash can scare me away...
...Your account of President Roosevelt's western trip in the Oct. 7 issue was extremely timely and interesting. The impression was gained that the crowds that turned out at the various stops were not as large as anticipated, which is significant...
...Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development in U. S. history, succeeds in giving a comprehensive account of the ways of the Community without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently intelligent to win the respect of such later students as Havelock...
Typical of the tongue-in-check attitude Laval has maintained all through the present crisis, this new suggestion takes no account of the fact that Mussolini's appetite for southern dainties must be appeased and that the removal of the British fleet would make the Mediterranean "Mare Nostrum" indeed...
...pleasant memory to the next, omissions are less important than they would be in a straight autobiography. But the references to Yvonne Printemps, his wife and co-star from 1919 to 1932, are surprisingly sparse, limited to a passing remark that Sarah Bernhardt witnessed their wedding and a brief account of their U. S. triumph. He says nothing of their divorce last year, of his triumph with his new leading lady-lovely, dark-haired Jacqueline Delubac, now the third Madame Sacha Guitry...