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Word: accountability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...TIME prints in its issue of May 29 the most ludicrous and stupid account of the Royal Visit that I ever have had the unpleasant opportunity of reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would be $30,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Luck on Tidewater | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...curious ability to serve two masters with fidelity and impartiality persisted. At his parties he liked to mix Red with Tory indiscriminately and rib all sides unmercifully. He had a positive distaste for money. Once a friend deposited $1,000,000 to his account, told him to keep what he could make with it. Having a million worried Alex Gumberg so much that he finally gave it back. Of Alex Gumberg, Judge Thacher said last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Confidential Adviser | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sales Talk | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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