Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage is blacked out and a voice blares over a microphone a garbled account of the battle closing with cries of "Abandon ship!" interspersed with sounds of seawater burbling into the hold...
...account of this distortion I am not surprised at your caption and comment. It is too bad that you did not have an opportunity to see the actual plaque, which only slightly idealizes Roosevelt...
...Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese and puppet forces. Already the Communists, by their own account, had yielded 19 towns...
Three years later, when Elliott was off at war and wanted to settle up his tangled financial affairs at home, President Roosevelt got into the deal again, by the minority's account; he sent the stalwart Texan Democrat. Jesse Jones, to settle the loan, on which no payments, either of interest or principal, had been made. Jones gave Hartford $4,000 and got back the Texas State Network stock that had been security for the loan...
This curtailed, modified account of the ladies' exploits (Miss Bennett plays a rather fast estranged wife) seems a little obsolescent by now and also not much like the real thing. But as a piece of melodramatic, patriotic entertainment it has its points. The producer's feminine touch can be seen in some intricately propped interiors and a very pretty sequence of a rain-drenched funeral procession. Gracie Fields' performance as the English spinster is near perfect. And Connie Bennett herself, who has lost nothing of her tough, wiry glamor with the years, gives fine style and energy...