Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate irony to Chancellor Churchill, pointed out that almost $2,000,000,000 of the "munitions and foodstuffs" alluded to were bought by Britain as purchasing agent for her Continental Allies with sums lent them by the U. S. (Thus Britain was declared to have purchased on her own account about half the "Common Cause" munitions and supplies stated by Mr. Churchill.) Pat came the British Exchequer's answer. The sums expended by Britain as agent for her Continental Allies were really more than counterbalanced by her own expenditures in their behalf. Ergo these sums cancel...
...shaken a finger in Nobile's agitated face: "You are nothing but the captain. ... I want you to know we will have no more of this." Nobile had sent his despatches anyway- Amundsen had quarrelled with the Nome Nugget's editor over printing Nobile's account without its being checked...
...trained for victory this year, and of the splendid record made by Wabash in recent years; but his suggestion that his college has an undisputed claim to the hypothetical "crown of American oratory" is tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender up to that period. Beloit won again in 1908, and has had two victories since then, if memory serves...
Provisions of a presidential decree promulgated to take effect on July 31: 1) Church property to be confiscated. 2) No foreign-born clergymen may officiate in Mexico. 3) No religious corporation may conduct an educational institution. 4) Monasteries and nunneries are dissolved. 5) No religious publication may publish any account of or comment on national political affairs. 6) There can be no religious instruction in schools. 7) Religious ministers shall not be able to associate themselves for political purposes. 8) All religious acts of public worship shall be celebrated absolutely inside of churches which shall always be under the vigilance...
...suggestions and brief information for deepening and broadening life. He has written "The Outlines of Everything" from Shakespeare to Science, including the assurance that: "Darwin returned to Europe and wrote a book called Sartor Resartus which definitely established the descent of mankind from the avoirdupois apes," and a careful account of how Shakesbur (or Shaksper, Shicksper, Shagsber, or S.) wrote Henry V with assistance from Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marlowe and a little help from Fletcher. There is a section of international documents, summing up other people's prophecies about the next war, the oscillations of the French cabinet, weekly...