Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile from Paris came the first detailed account of Dr. Schuschnigg's six-month confinement. According to Dr. Martin Fuchs, former Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris and friend of the jailed Chancellor, Dr. Schuschnigg is now held in a tiny bedroom under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, a stuffy, ten-foot-square cell containing only a bed, table, chair and a burly Storm Trooper who never leaves the room. "He has altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor...
Theories grow fast in any sort of advertising business, and radiomen have a theory to account for the behavior of their industry in hard times. Sponsored radio entertainment, they argue, creates a demand not only for the product advertised but also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...
...publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle that contrasts particularly with the excitable, brooding record of Louis Adamic's Americanization...
...years and lived as strenuously as the he-men he wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid, has few of the selfconscious, lugubrious literary passages that weighed down Lust for Life...
...astronomers believe that certain stars pulsate bodily, and it is not unreasonable to suspect that the earth, a star, pulsates too. If there is a uniform contraction and expansion of the entire globe a raising of five inches in the crust is sufficient to slow down the earth and account for the maximum lengthening of the day which has so far been observed. The process of expansion, said Dr. Brown, might conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth's surface which was at a critical temperature (one in which a small change...