Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of many of my friends that your editorial and account of the reception of Jane Anderson reflects discredit on Harvard undergraduates. I think you should point out that the great majority of Harvard students there were courteous in spite of political faith, and that as well as catcalls, there was plenty of applause. The unruly elements were a small number of Communists who came, not to listen to the lecture, but to cause a disturbance. And most of these Communists are Student Union members and leaders...
With this issue TIME completes its 15th year. An account of TIME'S career to date appears under Press. But not until Nov. 10, 1939 will TIME'S Letters Department, inaugurated 20 months after the magazine first appeared, be 15 years old. The department was founded out of necessity. Almost from the magazine's inception, each issue evoked hundreds of pertinent communications, from which the Editors decided to print "excerpts . . . selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME." In two essential respects the material printed in TIME...
...Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could not "account for his impulses.'' Meanwhile, impulsive Mr. Marien had been charged with what seemed to be an extracurricular forgery for $141.75. New York Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall, who was shaking his head over the case, began to wonder if it were quite so clear an example of frustration...
...prominent addicts account for only a few of the 750,000 mysteries the U. S. public absorbs each year...