Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Information Service's bulletins to China (framed by the State Department) sounded quite different. In its account of the China hearings, USIS gave a niggling 17 lines to Wedemeyer, a fat 68 to Willard Thorp and William Walton Butterworth Jr., State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China...
...space-grabbing technique shrewdly took account of the Western editor's sense of fair play: even if he had a pretty good idea of who was doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
...small Wallace vote, while it might not have the same inimical effect on Democratic chances, would, by the same token, produce few long range results because neither party would feel obliged to take account of the political ideology contained in the Wallace movement...
Library, instruction, and building costs are 50 percent above the 1940 level, he explained, and endowments, which never covered more than a third of the costs, now account for less than 25 percent...
...each thing is remembered in a sense by God, and each is "prehended," taken account of and thus preserved, by all that comes thereafter. Each of us is naught but a series of somewhat closely related actual occasions. No one of us is permanent, no one of us is duplicatable, no one of us is forever without effect on everything there will be. We are internally richer, more intense than other beings perhaps and occasionally we may have a flicker of a consciousness denied to others, but in principle we are like all other beings. Like all else...