Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What in the world possessed you to describe me in your issue of Feb. 1 as "an avowed, outspoken partisan of Trotsky?" Did the Moscow trial upset you so much? Your account shows that you handled the Moscow end of it much more authoritatively than the Manhattan...
...Your account of Leon Trotsky recalled to me a record of his New York life that has been in our family for years. During the War Joe Brotsky, my mother's cousin by marriage, ran a tailoring shop on Canal Street on the Bowery...
...swart Italian who was born Angelo Siciliano 44 years ago and brought to Brooklyn by his parents at 11, Mr. Atlas by his own advertised account was originally a puny "no-account runt," a "sickly, skinny, run-down weakling weighing only 97 pounds." His inspiration came on a visit to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, where he was so impressed by the plaster-cast Greek heroes that he thenceforth devoted his life to his body. His present title dates from the early 19203 when Publisher Bernarr Macfadden was running beautiful body contests. Charles Atlas won so regularly that...
...Bethlehem's aging Chairman Charles Michael Schwab, hard-boiled Mr. Grace in interviews or statements is usually given to gloom. In his Manhattan office Mr. Grace now proudly declared: "We had tried in our December distributions to both preferred and common stockholders to use up all profits . . . on account of the tax on undistributed surplus. But we missed by a wide mark. We will pay to the Government about a quarter of a million dollars under that...
ESCAPE TO THE TROPICS-Desmond Holdridge-Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). Fresh account, with photographs, of a blissful experiment in "savagery, barbarism and civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them...