Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great deal of property of Americans has been taken under or in violation of the agrarian laws for which no compensation has been made, and other properties practically ruined and, in one instance, taken by the Mexican Government on account of unreasonable demands of labor. Mr. Sheffield will have the full support of this Government and we will insist that adequate protection under the recognized rules of international law be afforded American citizens...
...Minister expects -if the Moroccan war does not ruin his plans-to produce a small budgetary surplus. Amounts falling due from Germany under the operation of the Experts' Plan are this year to be used as budget receipts, but next year they will be kept in a separate account and use:l for paying reconstruction charges and French debts. This will mark the end of balancing budgets with expectations from Germany, which has been a common practice since...
...World printed the story, but not prominently. Other editors, less cynical, printed the account in full with prominence on their first or second pages. Time will prove whether or not the story was veracious...
...think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life is so complex in its personal, social, public and international relations, it has so many facets, refracts the light in so many different ways, that it is very difficult to see aright, or to take into account in due proportion all the manifold elements it contains...
Wrong opinions come mainly from lack of sight, from not seeing far enough, or widely enough, or from obstacles in the line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite...