Word: accountability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richard N. Elliott, times and conditions also changed when Congress stiffened its back over the Reorganization Bill. Before that he had confined his blue pencil to Government expenses for publicity, such frills as an expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last...
Dawn Patrol (Warner Bros.). Fortunately for cinemaddicts, as Hollywood finds it increasingly hard to say new things, it says the old ones increasingly well. This picture certainly gives no new account of the Royal Flying Corps. Its members fly "canvas coffins," drink "to the next man to die," and grimly say "Right!" when they mean "Wrong!" just as they have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences...
...love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...
...close the account of the lynching with these words: "- they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn the body." Is this irony-or an accolade...
...minute weekly broadcasts of Burns & Allen, Comedian Gracie Allen gives her radio listeners many a rib-tickling account of her mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...