Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...
...average TIME-reading woman has charge accounts at two department stores (one also has a charge account at a lumber yard, another at a farm equipment dealer's). Her food bill last year was $27 a week (although 11% say it was over $40). She owns 4.6 cookbooks and tried out at least one new recipe last month, which "everybody" liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested...
...Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor who won a Pulitzer prize for his editorials on racial tolerance...
...When the U.S. Constitutional Convention was in labor, old Benjamin Franklin moved that a chaplain be appointed to ask God's help before each session. Alexander Hamilton opposed the motion. According to one account, he made a flowery speech lauding the talents of the assembled delegates, expressing confidence in their wisdom and concluding that he did not see "the necessity of calling in foreign aid." While George Washington stared stonily at Hamilton, the convention carried Franklin's motion. Nevertheless, God is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, although He is named in the Declaration of Independence...
Indecent Exposures. By next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...