Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper business five years ago when he went to Cuba to sell dictatorial Gerardo Machado the idea of running a special Cuban section in Hearst newspapers. Having sold the idea, Mr. De Besa adroitly sold the advertising space to Cuban interests, then collected and wrote a glowing account of Boss Machado & friends which appeared only in the Washington Herald. After similar activity on behalf of Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Santo Domingo, Mr. De Besa, flashing a setting of diamonds given him by dictators, slipped back into Washington as chief of a Dominican Republic News Bureau...
...teaching at Indian Universities would seem to provide an almist perfect picture of what a University should not do and this account of it might well be instructive to the more extreme defenders of ivory tower academic traditions in this country...
...last issue of the Guardian the account of round one in the battle royal between Professor Sorokin and his critics ended with Professor Sorokin breathing hard and apparently on the ropes. In this number, however, the professor comes back strong and, with a succession of hooks and jabs, backs his critics into a corner...
High Tide N. A. M. is not unused to unsettled times. Its official history begins with an account of how the organization was conceived to meet the "crisis" brought on by another Democratic Administration (Grover Cleveland's). "Great crises," observes N. A. M.'s historian, "are always the fathers of the men and the measures that bring about their alleviation or cure." The history continues darkly...
...Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary evidence, except Plutarch's incomplete account, was only frenzied, made-in-Rome propaganda. His "new" evidence was dug out of a "psychological" investigation. And Author Ludwig does succeed in presenting a Cleopatra who, as Queen of Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, deserves something better than her reputation as a sort of Oriental Mae West...