Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...
Naming princes is a ticklish task. On account of the Irish it was necessary to include "Patrick" among the seven given names of Edward of Wales. On account of the Slovenes plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was obliged, last week, to select a Slovene appellation as the principal name of her lately born third son (TIME, July...
Salt herrings and blue blood account for Norway's choice as umpire. The good value she gives in selling fish to the Soviet monopoly has made her sturdy friends at Moscow; and her tall, vigorous King Haakon VII is the only living brother-in-law of Britain's frail, gallant George V. Naturally the new British Labor Government thought first of Neighbor Norway when it decided to make conciliatory overtures to Russia through some honest friendly little state...
Chrysler Corp. (Four years old in June; third largest in autos. In June, E. F. Hutton and Waddill Catchings joined the directorate. Plymouth and De Soto cars account for 40% of corporation's sales. First half sales approximately $228,000,000.) Net income, first half...
This business involves facts and figures embracing what the machine does to men. At the end Author Chase balances the machine's effects good, bad and indifferent, and from the whole account concludes: "Engines have been enslaved...