Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: All congratulations for your definitive account of The Music Goes 'Round and Around [TIME, Jan. 20]. Especially astute was your perception of something missed, so far as I know, by all other commentators-the subtle connection existing between the success of that song and the incipient major trend in American music: the swing to "Swing.". . . PRESTON JUSTICE...
Much more congenial subjects for M. Maurois' pen are Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield. His account of the way in which Strachey "reinstated Cllo among the Muses" is illuminating; and though he is delighted when Strachey in such portraits as "Lady Hester Stanhope" makes history seem "almost like a symbolist poem," he is aware that the truest history is never to be found in such portraits. On the interference of too much scientific knowledge and a too scientific point of view in the fiction of Huxley, M. Maurois is very just. And his analysis and estimate...
...same time, some of the most telling effects are gained through a tongue-in-the-cheek subtlety. When the doddering idiot of a king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same...
...bottle or, as the bottle man always calls it, the container division of the glass business, is not so concentrated as the flat glass division, although a half dozen companies account for about 80% of the business. In 1935 the U. S. used some 5,300,000,000 bottles compared to about 10,000,000,000 cans. Biggest bottle company is Toledo's Owens-Illinois which last autumn made itself even bigger by acquiring Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co., a tumbler-maker not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Owens-Illinois makes some two-thirds...
Attending Harvard in the period covered by this newly discovered kitchen account book were students who later became famous, among them Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts and delegate to the Continental Congress; Artemas Ward, Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts troops and delegate to the Continental Congress; Samuel Langdon, President of Harvard; Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut; James Bowdoin, President of the Constitutional Convention and Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Clap, President of Yale; and four other delegates to the Continental Congress, Robert Treat Paine, William Ellery, Thomas Cushing, and James Otis