Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University-wide shock at the news that as much as ten thousand dollars' worth of belongings had been stolen was inexcusable. Plainly, the weak, scattered admonitions about "petty" thievery and locking one's door had prepared almost no one for an account of activities which more resembled wholesale looting than casual stealing. In view of the individual student's ignorance of the whole picture, those University authorities who recognized that this was a persistent, going business, could have made a flat official statement of the seriousness of the situation with the suggestion that the serial numbers and labels...
...thousands of letters, transcripts of press conferences, speech drafts with changes in the President's hand, recorded conversations of every official phone call. (Of telephone talks with the President, the Secretary recorded only his own side.) He either dictated, or wrote in his own barely legible hand, an account of Cabinet meetings and all his dealings with Roosevelt. Each war year takes 100 volumes or more...
...carelessness, charged the committee, had "contributed to the development of the veteran fronting practice." One example: a veteran got $769,950 worth of preference certificates, yet had no office, warehouse or bank account...
...prevalent theory to account for the lamentable level of Lampoon excrescence is that the stories are written in the early morning hours as an anticlimax to protracted wassailing, and that the only way to appreciate the humor of the magazine is to read it in the same inebriated state in which it is written. It is time for the Lampoon to decide if it is to be a magazine or a club; and if it chooses the latter, then step down and make way for a decent publication. Name withheld by request...
...forms that must be filled out! I wish I had kept account of the time spent filling forms. In England we check the register in the morning and that is all. This business of playing hooky [is] unheard of in England. . . . We trust [the children] and they...