Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your account of the recent award of scholarships given by the American Academy in Rome [TIME, May 27] is even more disappointing than your report of the same event in previous years. You seem to imply that to Mr. Eugene Savage belongs most of the credit for the splendid record of the Yale School of Fine Arts during the past years. Mr. Savage, I believe, would be the first person to deny this. As Leffmgwell Professor of Painting his influence reaches only a small section of the Yale Art School. He has nothing to do with the instruction in architecture...
...funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit showed at least $350,000 had vanished. Also raised when the County Board called Bob Sweitzer to account fortnight ago were the facts that he had apparently collected all interest on deposited county funds for his first eleven years in office, that he had used $75,000 of public money caught in a closed bank in 1920 as if it were...
...York periodical. He has been snagged by the Glenda Farrell marital hooks. Horton who owns the magazine attempts to solve the problem by moving O'Brien's alcoholized carcass to Caliente. Here the boys meet Miss Del Rio who dances and has a grudge against O'Brien on account of an uncomplimentary review he once gave her. She takes her revenge by falling in love with him and he reciprocates in his sophisticated way. Amid all this there is the intermittent byplay of Berkeley creations and guitar music...
...read your account of Pacific Greyhound's opening their "Nitecoach" service between this city and Kansas City with great interest because I have just completed a round trip on these buses (TIME, May 6). However, you are not entirely correct in every detail...
Sixteen years ago a U. S. newspaperman, John Reed, wrote the first eyewitness account in English of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, in Ten Days that Shook the World. Brief, brisk, emphatically pro-Bolshevik, Reed's account won Lenin's approval, earned its author burial space in Moscow's place of honor in the Red Square, has served as a valuable source book for historians ever since. Last week another U. S. newspaperman, William Henry Chamberlin, for ten years Russian correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, offered the first definitive history of the turbulent period, including...