Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigating Ruddy's bank account, Commissioner Blanshard discovered that while the swimmer had earned a salary of only $11.331 in 1931-34. he had banked $104.006. Examiner Ruddy had explained to Commissioner Blanshard that he had made the money at various New York race tracks and from the receipts of his "health camp." None of the people he designated as health camp patients had ever been there. The Civil Service Commission suspended Examiner Ruddy, pending determination of charges...
...Daily Variety of Hollywood, which had predicted his permanent departure from the State a month ago. "No one does, least of all a native son whose father was a pioneer; but it is utterly impossible for me to remain here and occupy a place like San Simeon on account of the Federal and State tax laws...
Concluded Pundit Kent: "No one can read Mr. Amick's account without wondering what is to happen when the $50,000,000 gives out; how, once started, the Government is ever to get out of this business of being the national nurse maid...
...other Nazi bigwigs last week attended the 125th anniversary of General von Scharnhorst's War Academy. With them stood a hard-working officer who for years has been known to the Press as "Chief of the Troop Office." His name was General Ludwig Beck. In the first brief account of the ceremonies an official press release casually gave him his real title-"Chief of the General Staff." Stepping to the rostrum, Chief of Staff Beck told how it had been done...
There is nothing patronizing in Author Brown's account of mid-century interior decorating, when a Turkish Cozy Corner stood in every up-to-date parlor, when piano legs had wide, baby-blue sashes tied to them. Although he occasionally apologizes for the crudities of the day, his book gives the impression that he found the folding bed an impressive contribution to progress, horse cars an entirely satisfactory means of transportation...