Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany. "It is necessary from now on to take into account the existence of the Rome-Berlin axis. Between the two regimes there is a lasting solidarity. You understand me when I say that it is a lasting solidarity sealed by blood." (A reminder that German and Italian troops had died in Spain...
Stubborn defenders of Santander province are the dynamite-throwing Asturian miners. Up in the mountains at the beginning of the drive, the fierce Asturians carried on guerrilla warfare against the advancing rightists. The Associated Press correspondent following the Rightists cabled a vivid account of a fantastic battle on one of the fog-hung peaks...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government won the right to reopen a claim involving $4,976,722 against Guaranty Trust Co. That sum was on deposit at the Guaranty Trust by the Russian Government Dec. 17, 1917. On Feb. 25, 1918 the bank closed the account, charging against it sums of money which were then due it from the Russian Government as successor to certain nationalized concerns which had been in debt to the bank. When, by the Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed...
...with the program, putting the rest of the "Iloveyou" songs off to the end. Mollified, the muscular maestro-who used to be an amateur boxer and was interviewed as such last week by Sports Writer Cy Peterman of the Philadelphia Bulletin-seated himself at the piano, gave an account of the Rhapsody in Blue of the late George Gershwin,* which for technical brilliance and jazz feeling topped anything Gershwin or Roy Bargy ever did with the work...
...first note of awe in Author O'Connor's account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent...