Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more groveling was his account of himself: "Before the June 1957 [showdown] I was not with the antiparty group on the question of reorganizing industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted...
...clients. Early this month the official was arrested while on one of his trips, and the police soon had enough information to swoop down upon the office of a notary public in Barcelona. There they found a list of 1,363 names, each accompanied by a secret account number...
...Spanish borders were closed to all those named. A letter went out to each, inviting him to drop in at police headquarters at the earliest convenience. As the suspects arrived, each got two pieces of paper to sign. One contained the government's reckoning of his secret accounts, the other an agreement to bring the money home within 30 days. The police were always polite-but they were also deadly accurate. Said one man of his own account: "They had me down to my last centime...
Last week the story of the pardon played out in the kind of twist with which Story Spinner O. Henry liked to end his own tales. Jack McKenzie, account executive for the Cain Organization, a Dallas public relations outfit, let it be known that he had whipped up the whole furor as a plug for a client's television show. The Gift of the Magi, a musical version of the sentimental, enduring O. Henry Christmas story. Said successful Pressagent McKenzie: "Greatest thing I ever...
...FLANDERS FIELDS, by Leon Wolff. Incredible bravery and even more incredible high-command folly make up the grisly story of one of the saddest campaigns of World War I. Author Wolff's account of tragedy amid blood and mud is cool, informed and horrifyingly persuasive...