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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THEIR STATEMENTS AUDITED BY OUTSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS MORE THAN ONCE A YEAR AND MANY LESS FREQUENTLY STOP OUR COMPANIES IN ADDITION IN MOST CASES OF MAKING PERIODIC REPORTS TO THE STATE AUTHORITIES MAINTAIN A MOST CAPABLE AND A MOST EXTENSIVE AUDITING DEPARTMENT AND OUR STATEMENTS ARE ALSO AUDITED AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS BY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS STOP . . . IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF THESE AUDITS NO FIRM OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS HAS EVER DISAGREED WITH THE WORK OF OUR OWN AUDITORS EXCEPT ON TRIVIAL AND MINOR MATTERS AND I WOULD SAY IN AT LEAST NINETEEN CASES OUT OF EVERY TWENTY WE HAVE PROVED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Intense, irregular work and living gave him an enlarged heart and diabetes. He was gloomy when he went to Africa in 1927. Mrs. Noguchi remained behind, gloomy too. She still lives in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Funny Noguchi | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...doctors, lawyers, ministers, social workers and educators may buy it. The Dutch were among the first to make family control a general convenience. In his Ideal Marriage he analyzes and describes the minutiae of male and female physiological activities pertaining to sexual activities. Incidentally he defines a kiss "an irregular intermittent pneumatic massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Connubial Hygiene | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

George is the name of the King. St. George is the patron saint. And St. George's, Westminster, is the Parliamentary constituency in which Buckingham Palace stands. Last week two rival Conservative candidates, a regular and an irregular, contested St. George's in a by-election of the first importance. The real issue, dwarfing both candidates, was the fitness of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to remain leader of the Conservative Party. St. George's is so utterly Conservative that there was no Liberal, no Laborite candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Royal | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Royal | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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