Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations. . . . You did a creditable job on a difficult subject. Although there were a few sarcastic statements in the article, TIME gave a truer, less prejudiced account of Vatican politics and policies than one would expect from many secular publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this...
Replied Planner Laski (whose remarks were punctuated with phrases like "my poor dear Johnston"): "If you . . . think that private enterprise is going to be so much more beneficial after this war . . . how do you account for the fact that we went from the last war straight into the depression of 1929?" Snapped Enterpriser Johnston: "I am amazed that a man like you would make a statement of that kind. . . . We are finding out in the United States today that there is no such thing as overproduction." When Laski brought up the well-known fact that so-called free enterprise...
...rumored per diem expense account is rumor. Actually, an eight-cent per mile travel allowance will be paid to the billets specifically listed. It is possible however, to obtain letters of introduction to other Naval Activities if so desired, but definite assignments and remuneration for travel will not forthcome...
...signature) find the account of the invasion* (TIME, July 19) of Sicily (see map, p. 26) and the battles ... of Belgorod (TIME, July 19), Orel (TIME, Aug. 2) and the Donets River (see p. jo) difficult to read (see cut, col. 2). . . . Smoothness (in writing) is a desirable quality (see Books...
...Armenian-born journalist, has sat in on the conclaves of some 30 U.S. fascist and near-fascist groups. What he saw and heard, and what he thinks about it, makes a bulky (544 pages), jumbled, fact-crammed book. * It is good reading and worth reading; it is a believable account of real viciousness, relieved by fragments of pure absurdity. Smart readers will make allowances for Investigator Carlson's enthusiasms, distinguish for themselves between stooges and stars...