Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet of it without being permitted to go farther. Finally in 1923 he asked outright for it, argued that its continued loss made the Poles hostile to Russia. Soviet authorities took him to the medical museum, showed him a body which he identified by reading his breviary's account of the martyrdom of Andre Bobola. Because the Russians feared pious demonstrations in Poland, Father Walsh was invited to take the body to Rome by any other route. He took it by way of Odessa, Constantinople and Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bolsheviks might seek to switch bodies and thus hoax...
Young's Case. According to this bitterly angry financier, the whole shebang is a result of "the interests" ganging up on him. Robert Young asserts that when the Vans ran C. & 0., its fat banking account was always handled by J. P. Morgan & Co. or by Guaranty, on whose directorate sit two Morgan partners. Morgan's, claims Mr. Young, also handled all C. & O. financing, which was never offered to competitive bidding from other investment houses. This business would now fall to Morgan Stanley & Co., Morgan's underwriting offshoot since the New Deal divorced deposit banking...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...
...buried him at last. But when they consider what Lopez was up to when she was so close to him, readers may reflect that her devotion does not do her unmixed honor. Aside from the purple passages describing their romance, Woman on Horseback is most interesting in its account of Lopez' battles. Again & again his rapidly dwindling armies defeated superior forces, the Pyrrhic victories continuing until Paraguay virtually had no men between the ages of 14 and 60. The only stumbling block to peace negotiations was Lopez' refusal to abdicate. To Author Barrett the simple fact that...