Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gentlemen, I am a Catholic," the candidate told Salford voters. "As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative...
...Annapolis; later, at sea, his irresponsibility in humiliating a British ship's captain became an international incident). His most spectacular adventure was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch armed with a torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready...
...budget the President has submitted is geared to continuing prosperity at a rate six percent higher in this calendar year than in 1956," Byrd said. "His budget also takes into account a proposed 600-million-dollar increase in revenues through a boost in postal rates, which Congress might not approve...
...long-awaited report which appeared last month did prove to be a "shocker"--as Commission members had predicted--more on account of the style in which it was written than of any unexpected disclosures. In it the majority of the members condemned the growing state of lawlessness as "pernicious and shocking," described in detail the workings of a gambling syndicate, and indicated it was withholding a section of the report, with names and further particulars. Although this section was later turned over to the Legislature, the Commission's hesitancy implied its doubt on whether the information could stand...
...backbone of the U.S. economy is made up of small businesses-they account for some 4,000,000 of the 4,250,000 U.S. firms-Yet small business is in deep trouble. While big businesses are getting bigger and taking a fatter share of the market, small companies are shackled in their attempts to grow by heavy-and often discriminating-taxes. Wrote Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers to President Eisenhower last week, inp eading for the creation of a Cabinet-ranking Secretary of Small Business: "Every single barometer indicates a general worsening of conditions for smaller firms. Time...