Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German money. There she would explain Naziism to Congressmen, military and naval officers, newspapermen. Although she and Dr. Griebl did nothing and heard nothing more about it, they continued to visit Berlin night spots and absorb champagne at the German Government's expense. Miss Moog's prolonged account of this so vexed long-legged Judge Knox that he finally slapped the bench, barked: "Stop that...
Next, Dayton's 1,300 teachers were asked to work without pay until money was found. Having already given up $2,500 each on account of shortened school terms in the past eight years, the teachers refused...
When, after getting to know the Carletons on board a train, the lonely old lady applies her creed to her new friends and the Carletons apply their technique to her bank account, the results are as might be expected. The Carletons move into the Fortune mansion in London to wait for the old lady to die and leave them all her money. Softened by years of living by their wits, they not only lack the moral fibre to take advantage of their hostess but even allow her to rob them of their resistance to right-living. They succumb so completely...
...Chinese machine gunners handcuffed to their guns. (The Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some few of the Generalissimo's best troops saw action and gave a good account of themselves the bulk of them withdrew to Canton, thence to Hankow and last week to the West...
...Leaving out of account a dubious Soviet claim of 24 miles...