Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he gives his second interview to the press (and let us pray that it maintains the miraculously high standard of the first; TIME, Feb. 17) let it be the occasion of an appended resume of his stormy career and some account of from whom he inherited his unique qualities of Royal Entertainer...
...Both testified that they took full responsibility for the contracts and still regarded them as in the best interests of the Government. Then the Army prosecutor produced two used round-trip railroad tickets to San Francisco which, including Pullman tickets, cost $369.70 and were charged to Silverman's account at the Hotel Mayflower...
...Government, and peasants appeared puzzled to be handed by one local official in their village half a dozen different appeals. By this new system, as an eminent Japanese remarked, "Our elections have been purged of much bribery and corruption and of all political importance." This overstatement did not take account of the fact that Japan's dominant militarists are by & large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese virtues. If that be radicalism, then the militarists, although they are the world's most violent reactionaries...
...metre walk in which it was so difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose prodigious love for bananas is supposed to account for his strength, out-shotputted Champion Jack Torrance; when bespectacled Chuck Hornbostel won the 1,000-metre...
According to one witness at the Old Bailey trial, Howeson's flier in pepper was a complete side-show for him. Garabed Bishirgian was a Howeson crony, and while transactions were for the account of a company headed by Howeson, the pepper trading was done through Bishirgian & Co. Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson started to play the shellac market late in 1933, switched to white pepper in 1934 with the idea of cornering the world supply. By that summer the Howeson firm was loaded up with some $2,000,000 worth of shellac and about $5,000,000 worth of pepper...