Word: accountable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside in the School Yard, friends of the victim are waiting eagerly to hear a first-hand account of what occurred . . . For a few days, he will be a hero. The slight pain which the flogging caused will be highly compensated by the interest it has created. The punishment is greatly preferred to copying out lines which take up hours which could be spent at leisure...
This week Congress raised the President's salary from $75,000 to $100,000. To his old $40,000 traveling expense account, Congress added $50,000, taxfree, to spend as he chooses, no questions asked...
...Republican Wayne Morse was the most overwrought Senator of the week. What brought him to his feet was the bill to give the President a raise. "There is entirely too much high living in Washington," he said. He saw a trend, reflected in the President's increased expense account, "resulting in an overemphasis of the social aspects of government service . . . Cocktail parties that cost from $500 to $1,000 should not be considered as being a necessary expense or social obligation of ... public office in this country . . .What Washington D.C. needs is some simple living...
...account also states that Pound reported no signs of strife or disintegration among the leaders or the rank-and-file of the Kuomintang. The only instances of poor morale which Pound discovered were a few student strikes...
Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...