Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House, answered a direct question directly: Yes, he had asked to have his tax bill passed at this session. He remembered when he used to practice law. If a rich man had a weak case in court his lawyers might try to get it postponed on account of hot weather. If anyone had a good case he pressed for action. In so many words Franklin Roosevelt said that rich men, such as newspaper publishers,* who oppose his tax bill had a weak case, while he had a strong case. Ergo, he pressed for action. Congressmen spend their legislating hours...
Sirs: In TIME, July 1, under the heading of Religion, p. 21, appeared a more accurate account of Swedenborg and the New Church than usually appears in the public press. . . . I must call your attention, in the interest of accurate reporting, to one essential error. You stated that in 1890 "some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members...
...funeral is held on Sunday many visitors who have no personal interest leave their lots and hang around while the interment takes place, oftentimes making thoughtless remarks and generally taking away from the solemness of the interment. "The Police Department are in favor of this movement on account of traffic conditions. Funeral corteges on Sunday are many times as long as on weekdays, for many mourners who have nothing else to do follow to the cemetery...
...whoever was responsible for the account of the Central Conference of American Rabbis [TIME, July 8], TIME-reader Fern Pels (who, incidentally, speaks a slick Yiddish) would like to point out one refreshingly asinine mistake...
...Liar!" "I said to Mr. Brewster then, in front of Dr. Gruening," snapped Witness Corcoran, " 'If, as you say, your political situation is such that you are not a free man and have to take the power companies into account . . . you know perfectly well that I can no longer trust your assurance that you will protect the Quoddy relation...