Word: audition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very grave risk. . . . He asked me if I knew about the events of November. I said that...
...facilities for cultural broadening. few students take full advantage of these opportunities, most of them plodding dully through their sixteen routine courses, unconscious of the flood around them. Yet, many of these intellectual draughts are free to any who will drink-to any who will take the time to audit courses or sit in occasional out-of-course lectures. Most students are aware of this; the crime is that so few avail themselves...
...will be 95 Republican candidates in the field and by the end of July, 156. To Joe Martin, the candidate is always more important than the issue, the place more vital than the program, but by last week he and grey-haired Mr. Venable, whose job is to pre-audit votes for the Congressional Committee as Emil Hurja did for Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, were at least assured of where the autumn's battle would be briskest...
...unsound has been used in the fight against the Byrnes bill. The cry of "dictator" is ridiculous; as a matter of fact, the proposed extension of the Civil Service will lessen the President's power by taking the weapon of patronage from him. The division of the pre-audit and the post-audit functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that governmental inefficiency...
...volunteered $5 and $10. But other publishers whose agents had sold Literary Digest in combination with their own magazines were grieved because the Digest's suspension and appeal for funds threatened to involve them in difficulties with their own subscribers. So great was trade agitation that the Audit Bureau of Circulations, trade association which watches over such matters, called a hasty session. Rebuked, the Digest last week returned its subscribers' contributions, petitioned U. S. District Court for permission to reorganize under Section 776 of the Bankruptcy...