Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albany Democrats roared a routine answer: "Cheap political trickery. . . ." But the O'Connell machine was alarmed. In self-defense, Albany's district attorney promptly ordered a grand jury to investigate expense-account padding by the State Legislature, long dominated by the G.O.P. On the jury of 21 men were three contractors who do business with the city administration, twelve O'Connell party hacks...
...Grandma Must Go. Then the Court got an eyewitness account of Willie's business with one Jack Miller, labor representative for a group of Chicago movie exhibitors...
...with a bunch from Brooklyn. That was the year Mickey Owen dropped the third strike on Tommy Henrich. We were in the sunny southland, but I'll swear it didn't stop raining until the following February. And all on account of that third strike...
...Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates by popularizing the Sweet Rosie O'Grady song and by publishing an account of their mythical affair. Soon they are really in love...
...radio becomes guilty of making its commentators take sides-or pull their punches-in order to curry favor with advertisers, it will have much to account for. But it will also have much to account for if it abandons all editorial views in order to put on a false front of impartiality...