Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...Last week (under no pressure) Jimmy Conzel-man resigned as coach of one of the most successful teams in pro football, the Chicago Cardinals. He was tired of traveling, and, at 50, he was moving back home to St. Louis to work full time at his job as an account executive for the D'Arcy Advertising Co. He also wanted to settle down to what he called "normal family life...
...most cogent argument against expansion was that it now costs an estimated $300 to add one ton of new capacity for finished steel (v. $75 prewar). Yet tax allowances for depreciation do not take the high replacement cost into account. For example, much of the cash being put in U.S. Steel's depreciation reserve has come out of profits and, as such, is taxable...
...telephone rang, and the Chief Editorial Writer, famed and celebrated throughout the land for his fearless and colorful crusades, rolled over, picked it up, grunted at it, and started listening, "O.K. champ, you're in the slot. We're printing this morning instead of tonight on account of somebody fouled up the schedule. We need an editorial...
...postwar interviews with German officers. Nor does it primarily concentrate on their differences with Hitler or their opinions of the Führer's strategy. It consequently lacks the provocative, meaty, unexpected characterizations and anecdotes of Liddell Hart's book, but it is a far more orderly account of events. Hitler had promised that there would be no war with England until 1944 or 1945, and by that time the German navy's building program called for some 13 battleships and 16 cruisers...