Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Out. In Massillon, Ohio, City Auditor Edgar L. Lash gave an explanation of why he had turned down a minor expenditure for the local fire department: "There should be a fireman on duty 24 hours a day [and] I see no reason for an alarm clock...
...farm near Webb City, Mo., started at the bottom. At 21, he quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff's assistant. Less than two years later, Frueauff died...
...trip to Ohio, Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle piously denied the rumor. Last week Harry Truman predicted, in equally pious tones, that the Democrats would carry Ohio. Taft's probable opponent, one Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, an amiable political mediocrity who is state auditor, cried that he would massacre his foe. But the winter book money was on Taft...