Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thievery, defined as stealing by non-violent methods, is a profession as exclusive and exacting as law or medicine. Published this week was a solid account of the life and activities of The Professional Thief,* notable for the fact that it is not a thriller but a sociological document. Written by a thief named Chic Conwell and edited by onetime University of Chicago Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland, it represents an informed thief's-eye view of a tight guild whose trades range from shoplifting to the suavities of the confidence man. Highlights...
Since the April budget estimate was submitted, $208,000,000 of expenditures have been knocked off by Administrative action and another $115,000,000 by bookkeeping adjustments in the Old Age Reserve Account, a total reduction of $323,000,000. But reduced interest rates on loans to farmers will cost the budget $40,000,000; extension of PWA, $25,000,000; social security tax refunds. $36.000,000; the Railroad Retirement Act, $113,000,000; cotton loans...
...Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house was: "I'm willing to take the rap." Still too drunk to give a coherent account of what had happened, he was held for investigation...
...quote the Bulletin's account. "The cemetery where this unique memorial to a Harvard teacher is to be preserved commands a view of the blue waters of Lake Biwa. It is situated in the very heart of Japan, in surroundings which have many associations with the religion, philosophy, and literature of Japan, of which Professor Woods had long been an eager and sympathetic student...
Though the Somerville Jumbos are often too tough to please their opposition, Coach Jack Carr's eleven rates a pregame favorite on account of its increasing offensive power as reflected in a 4 goal score against Dartmouth...