Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's in current polls, last week went into type on her own account. While her husband was catching what-for from the Senate on his foreign policy, in circumstances not dissimilar to Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dilemma (see p. 12), Mrs.Roosevelt wrote: "As far as possible I never discuss questions of partisan politics...
...halt was called to the merry-making on account of the legal drought, however, and the fraternity dances went on as scheduled...
...There has been a great interest in hockey, and I expect it will increase next year. We started late this year because the arena was not finished and that might account for our being cramped for time; naturally we will start earlier next year," commented Adolf Samborski, Director of Instramural Athletics...
...activities of the country would be essential; also, in order to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. Even this does not take into account the dangers of mass psychology. Inescapable is the conclusion that America, by reenforcing positive resistance to the totalitarian states, is promoting in the only practical way possible her own peace and security...
...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...