Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
...likable sort and he had a kind of brash courage. He had challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
Twenty hours of dianetic therapy "invariably" produces a "release," freedom from any and all psycho-somatic disorders--"a state superior to any produced by several years of psycho-analysis, since the release will not relapse." In the course of the treatment, an "auditor" (any layman who has purchased and read the textbook) induces a "dianetic reverie" in the patient, and, by suggestion and association, helps him "return" along his "time-tract" to relive his engrams. After recalling several times the speeches that have boxed him, the patient is free of their influence...
...President himself, confined to Washington by the Korean war, did not entirely abandon plans for invading Ohio, and he planned at least to bombard the No. 1 Republican position by radio before Election Day. Taft's opponent, State Auditor Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, was adding to the fireworks with a far more effective campaign than even his supporters had expected, although he conceded that a Democratic victory would come more from votes against Taft than from votes for Ferguson...
Peter Meihsl, 25, is a graduate of the University of Vienna. He will study government and political economy. His countryman, Franz Stanzel, 27, has been enrolled as a special auditor in G.S.A.S. He was graduated from St. Pankraz in the American Zone...