Word: auditing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an unemployed liquor salesman named William E. O'Toole whose brother is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. The manager handed O'Toole a check for $3,000 payable to the State in settlement of past due liquor taxes, which, according to a later audit, should have amounted to more than $22,000. The manager also handed O'Toole $3,000 in cash. "This is positively the last shakedown, now, isn't it?" he asked...
...Total Hearst income for 1934, according to FORTNE's exhaustive audit...
...Alice Lee Grosjean Terrel Tharpe, whose pretty eyes flowed freely outside the Dictator's hospital room door while he fought for life. At 18 she started as Long's private secretary. He made her Secretary of State, later State Supervisor of Public Accounts, handling millions, her records immune to audit. Her power with the Kingfish arose from a personal relationship. No sooner was he dead than more potent lieutenants began planning to oust her in favor of Long's brother Earl...
...letters published in TIME, July 29. James J. Harrison was a banker here once and now is an appointee of Wall Street Joe Robinson. Solmson's son is in the law firm that Robinson left when one member had the light turned on him when the State highway audit was made. Wall Street Joe has appointed all the old broken-down bankers and defeated and discredited politicians. National Sentiment in this Administration State is and strong much against the stronger against Wall Street Joe. He will have a real fight to be returned to the Senate. I have contacted...
...series of spectacular business failures. But Bob Sweitzer himself made a great show of unconcern. Blithe as a jaybird with a worm, he continued going to afternoon baseball games, banquets, told newshawks: "I'm not worried, only annoyed. I will ask for a reasonable time to check the audit. . . . There are some controversial items...