Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having done this ciphering, the stock holder could not be sure that his figures were correct because year-end adjustments might have distorted them. In a company like A.T. & T. the stockholder would undoubtedly have been informed of any important special charges against earnings. But an unscrupulous management could temporarily deceive its stockholders as to the profit trend. An official of another company using twelve-month reports, replying to a newshawk's complaint that the plan made it impossible for a stockholder to learn what his company earned in any given quarter, blandly declared: "That's the idea...
Bishop Müller: When your comrade in excitement strikes you in the face, it is not always correct to strike back immediately...
...heralded by reports that he possessed only one speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed...
...Shoes designed to correct foot trouble must be approved by the A. M. A. before a conscientious physician may prescribe them...
Sirs: ... I want also to point out the invasion of Brooklynese (is that the correct idiom?) into the Hungarian translation of (the couplet "returning you-joining you" from Gloomy Sunday [TIME, March 30]. I wonder that you didn't comment on it. HUBERT CREEKMORE Jackson, Miss...