Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...
...TIME prints in its issue of May 29 the most ludicrous and stupid account of the Royal Visit that I ever have had the unpleasant opportunity of reading...
...dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would be $30,000,000 a year...
...curious ability to serve two masters with fidelity and impartiality persisted. At his parties he liked to mix Red with Tory indiscriminately and rib all sides unmercifully. He had a positive distaste for money. Once a friend deposited $1,000,000 to his account, told him to keep what he could make with it. Having a million worried Alex Gumberg so much that he finally gave it back. Of Alex Gumberg, Judge Thacher said last week...
...after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...