Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no reason why confidence should again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover...
Sirs: Your account of the Pittsburgh flood [TIME, March 30] is excellent. I expected it would be. One little error has crept in. This is not surprising for the same error appeared in one of the Pittsburgh dailies. I refer to the statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged...
...healed wounds which sometimes open . . . the past returns and tears them. It was in one of these moments that Gloomy Sunday was born. I cried all the disappointments of my heart into this song, and people with feelings akin found their own hurt in it. That is how I account for it becoming a "deathly song"-because disappointment and suffering are felt by everyone alike. If the songs which burst from my heart will not be chosen by suicides as their "death march," but by those who seek balm for their hearts, I shall feel happy if I can accomplish...
...Filatov keeps in cold storage a collection of perfect eyes taken from cadavers or from patients whose eyes had to be enucleated on account of accident or disease...
...chance"), Richards fought through the entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After the War he wrote his personal account of it (Old Soldiers Never Die, as yet unpublished in the U. S.) and sent it to Graves for his opinion. Graves then urged him to write the story of his pre-War soldiering in India and Burma. Result was Old Soldier Sahib...