Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet, all-but-casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced the next day. From the railroad station at Warm Springs came...
Just as it was on the air, it is clear in the film that Fred Allen could be still funnier and much more fierce if he were taking a few million fewer people into account. The fact remains that Allen is not only a first-rate humorist but also the possessor of one of America's most honest, observant and murderously sardonic minds. That is one reason why so many people who shun most radio programs go out of their way to find...
Most Britons and Americans assumed that Russia was as good as in the Pacific war, and generally liked the idea. Allied military staffs had already taken the possible and probable effects into account. Many London and Washington officials were sure that Russia was coming in -maybe soon...
Night after night he used a secret trick to enter the locked doors of Wall Street offices. When he found a company with a big bank account, he would steal a few blank checks, often marking the stubs "destroyed because of bad printing." The second part of his work called for more skill. He would study the life and habits of a Manhattan businessman, learn to impersonate him, then open a bank account in his name...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...