Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, the original documents, dismortgages, leases, corporation histories vision provides source material in the form of account books, letter books and other private unprinted papers which permit the student to examine in detail the experience of individual business enterprises of earlier years. Here are the documents relating to early cotton mills to banks to merchandising establishments, and the like--material which permits the investigator to penetrate even more deeply than he could through printed documents into the history of American industry.INTERIOR VIEW OF BAKER LIBRARY...
...enthusiastic account of this international meeting appears in "Vorwaarts" Aug. 3, 1929 ? a Socialist paper published in Milwaukee...
When anything extraordinary and un- accountable has happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers: "Oh, Arthur Cutten and the rest?yon know." Two announcements from Chicago last fortnight illustrated in part of whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates...
...according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
Historians, thumbing over old Gazette files, wonder how Editors Dixon and Hunter would have treated President Hoover's election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in the room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq." Impartial, the Gazette gave George Washington no more space when he was appointed commander-in-chief of "all the provincial troops in North America...