Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Raymond Poincaré cabled Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon that France would like to pay the U. S. $10,000,000 on its War debt account. Mr. Mellon cabled back that the U. S. would be pleased to accept the handout. The payment will be made on June 15, without prejudice to the ratification of the Berenger-Mellon debt-funding agreement which neither the French Parliament nor the U. S. Senate has yet approved...
...have just read your account of the recent "blood and eggs riot" on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 21, 1927. Were you there? If it were not for my Harvard indifference, I would tell you to cancel my subscription to your damned magazine...
Thoroughly angered, Mr. Reed advanced toward Mr. Robinson, replied: "An insinuation is the last resort of a coward. The Senator has referred to me several times as venerable. I hope I am at least respectable. But the Senator neither here nor elsewhere need take my years into account...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...Evidently a press error. The two planes that "continued" thus have been the St. Louis and the San Francisco, the latter piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker, eye-witness author of the above account...