Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face. Ferguson said grimly, "It isn't funny." He asked Hughes: "Will you bring Mr. Meyer in?" After a long pause Hughes replied coldly: "No, I don't think I will." The two men glared hard at each other, then Ferguson signed a subpoena for Expense Account Johnny...
Stolen Spurs. Reviewing Dr. Hawley's account, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger diagnoses Custer as a psychopath marked by extreme vanity, inhumanity, ruthlessness and a complete lack of loyalty to any friend or cause. Dr. Menninger notes some glaring symptoms of severe neurosis: Custer was noted for gaudy uniforms and bad manners; during the Civil War he stole a pair of spurs given by General Santa Ana to the father of one of his friends who was a Confederate officer; he often exposed his troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually...
Chairman Ferguson promptly summoned Hughes's pressagent, John Meyer, the man with the inexhaustible bank account and all the girl friends. Chairman Ferguson proceeded with loving caution...
...first, and classic, account of German "psychological warfare" was Edmond Taylor's The Strategy of Terror (1940). In 1943, Taylor got a wartime job well suited to his gifts, as OSS coordinator with Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command. Richer by Asia tells how 28 months in Asia changed...
...Secretary Krug, a Cabinet member now, had to say something. He admitted that he had attended a few of Meyer's parties. But he denied having attended at least three for which Meyer had him listed on his expense sheet. Meyer, said Krug wrathfully, was padding the account at his expense...