Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry M. Blackmer, the fugitive from Denver and from U. S. justice for whom President Coolidge last month signed a special warrant that he might be seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless...
...early account of this skull replacement, the Journal of the American Medical Association last week unhappily commented: "It's even worse Without Brains...
They cannot differentiate between two cigarets nor between straight Turkish or domestic tobaccos. Sight apparently is necessary to recognize a specific cigaret. This checks with the fact that smoking in the dark is less pleasurable than in the light. However, it does not account for the actual distaste that the smoker of one brand has for another until several days' smoking makes him used...
...particularly the spirit of the last-named, it is not written for the old lady in Choisy-le-Bec. In addition to a wealth of personal comment the August issue contains such artificial features as a travel directory entitled "How To Get Out of Here" and a blithe, suggestive account of a bogus "International Gigolos Convention...
...taken one factor into account. Frank H. Claret is captain of the Atlantic Transport liner Minnewaska. He is as jovial and popular a skipper as is to be found on the high seas. On his account, travelers who are connoisseurs of captains choose the Minnewaska. He was the youngest of 18 children, ran away to sea at the age of 13, and during his motley career has supervised the tiller of every sort of craft. But Captain Claret's capability, his geniality and prowess as a raconteur do not constitute a complete estimate of the man. There is linked...