Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Propagandist. Finns cannot quite account for Russia's relatively lenient treatment. "Russia is mostly interested in getting the reparations from us," some say, "and therefore is letting us alone." Others proudly think that Russians fear to risk a long struggle with a people so passionately devoted to liberty. Another favorite explanation: "the Kremlin considers its present policy toward Finland good propaganda, especially for the Scandinavian countries." Many call their land "Russia's model protectorate...
...Kennedy-who has been working half-heartedly on a book-finally felt free to look for a new job. After his return to the U.S., he was kept on the A.P. payroll-but given no work to do. Then, in November, he suddenly found $4,982.80 in his bank account. The A.P. had deposited the money, apparently as severance pay. No one has yet told him that he is no longer an A.P. employe...
Peter W. R. Mitchell, a smart British banknote salesman, coolly turned the misunderstanding to his own account. He offered to print a colorful series of Guatemalan currency featuring a map of British Honduras. Gasped Banker Manuel Noriego Morales, "Will your Government permit you to print it?" "We are a free country," replied Mitchell smoothly, "and my company is not interested in politics...
...Does the Roman Catholic Church ever tolerate other religions? '. . . Pope Leo XIII explained this point tersely when . . . he wrote: "The Church indeed deems it unlawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same footing . . . but does not on that account condemn those rulers who, for the sake of securing some great good or of hindering some great evil patiently allow custom or usage to be a kind of sanction for each form of religion having its place in the state...
...good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account of Altgeld's life. The American contributes "interpretive" moments and prose passages that sound like Upton Sinclair...