Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
...station, caught an express to Warsaw, where Foreign Minister Josef Beck's auto was waiting to rush him to M. Beck's home. Three hours later Polish police were pulling reservists from their beds. French and British Ambassadors were summoned to hear M. Lipski's account of Herr Hitler's travelogue...
...hail, congratulations and credit to Boatbuilder Liiders. TIME'S account was focused, however, on the newsworthy fact that the U. S. Navy has decided to build another type boat (54-foot and 70-foot "mosquitoes...
...that Roosevelt II has partially divided the U. S. Fleet, sending its bulk back to the Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified...
Professor Winspear spent several years investigating that past by combing the works of other Greek writers. His conclusion: Socrates was a turncoat, a radical in youth, in old age a conservative who undermined Greek democracy. The professor's account...