Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe were going out and that "we shall not see them lit again in our life time," his prophetic eye did not envisage London yesterday. It's streets tricked in colors of red, white, blue and gold; its buildings flooded with many colored lights; Westminster Abbey, described in one account as "a poem in old ivory," and Buckingham Palace a "stately miracle in white"--in such dress London toasted King George's silver jubilee so proudly as to make one feel there had never been a war nor was one in the making...
Avoiding idleness after his retirement from Prudential promised to be a serious problem until Dr. Hoffman's good friend Samuel S. Fels, the philanthropic Philadelphia soapmaker, gave him a special bank account which enabled him to pursue his studies of cancer. At the University of Pennsylvania's Hoffman Cancer Li-brary-to which he gave 10,000 cancer histories and 65,000 cancer death certificates-he is now developing a study of diet and nutrition in relation to cancer...
...BATES, the very young English writer, known hitherto in this country for his volume of short stories entitled "The Woman Who Had Imagination," has produced a vivid and appealing account of the life, love and disappointments of an illegal rabbit-snarer in his novel "The Poacher...
...other 40% having been offered to citizens of the respective countries of incorporation. In the last year, however, the parent company is understood to have sold all its holdings in Ford of Germany and some stock in Ford of France. Losses realized on these sales are reported to account for the fact that Ford of England's profits of about $2,400,000 last year were lower than in 1933. But Sir Percival's territory remains all of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. Ford of Canada has virtually all of the British Empire except Egypt...
...merely the youngest of the Bragdon boys, farming his few stony acres when the weather would let him, working in the winter at the Navy Yard at Kittery. The Blaines, aristocrats of the neighborhood, looked down on the Bragdons as closefisted grubbers; so did everyone else but the no-account Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren's intolerance got too foolish for him. He worked long hours, salted away his cash...