Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was meant partly as a crack across the knuckles for U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, who, as chief of the General Accounting Office, stands at the outgoing end of the U. S. budget system. Never a harmonious team, the Messrs. Dawes and McCarl took hold of the newborn budget and accounting system simultaneously in 1921.?Said General Dawes: "The Comptroller General . . . has thus far failed in carrying out the accounting purpose of our present law. We have in the U. S., therefore, only the old-fashioned and entirely inadequate cash accounting system...
Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work...
...Crimson 1932 balltossers seem to have hit their stride and have taken four straight wins. Charles Devens '32, crack hurler, will be on the mound this afternoon when his teammates attempt to add the scalps of the young Indians to their list of victims...
Newark Preparatory School is sending an exceptionally strong group of runners including a crack mile relay team which under favorable conditions should stand an excellent chance of breaking the existing scholastic mark in that event...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...