Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told-and asked-Joe Kennedy...
...until last June that a complete picture of the course of the disease was presented to physicians. Last week, at the San Francisco meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists, Dr. Ernest Charles Dickson of Stanford Medical School, pioneer worker in valley fever, gave the first public, comprehensive account of the disease he had studied for 20 years...
...year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
Greatest problem in devising a screen play for Fred Astaire is how to account dramatically for the fact that he tap-dances better than anyone else in the world. On most occasions he has simply been cast as a celebrated American dancer. In Carefree he explains that he learned to dance in college, then psychoanalyzed himself to find out what he really wanted, discovered that he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He made a success of his profession, built up a pretty practice among the maladjusted skeet-shooting set. When his friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fianc...
...professor's love for upsetting convictions, B.A., M.A., and LL.B. Berle challenged the prevailing belief in the efficiency of large-scale production: "It is familiarly insisted that the old-fashioned farm was an inefficient unit. Yet if, besides the assumed cost of production, there were taken into account the continuity of employment, the ability to use energies of adolescents and of old people, the ability to take care of sickness and give some scope for individual creation and the like, it might prove that ... the old-fashioned farm was one of the most effective units known...