Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help finance its entire $235 million expansion program, Texas Eastern last week issued 200,000 shares of preferred stock at $100 a share, sold them all in three days. For President Orville Carpenter, onetime Texas state auditor who supervised the purchase of the Big and Little Big Inches as the company's comptroller in 1947, the week was the second most exciting one in Texas Eastern's ten-year history. "Same as when we began.'' said he. "This puts us out in front...
Blue-eyed Nuri asSaid ("Nuri the Happy One"), born in Baghdad in 1888, was the only son of Lowlow's descendant, Said Effendi al-Mudakikchi ("Mr. Said the Auditor"). For a boy of good family growing up in Ottoman Baghdad, the army was the only fit career, and Nuri went to a local Turkish military school that prepared candidates for the military academy in Constantinople. At twelve he nearly died of typhoid, but Baghdad's only doctor nursed him through, and in 1903 he was ready to make the hard trip to Constantinople and the three-year course...
...most influential publishers in the U.S. A shrewd, cost-conscious businessman, he has long articulated a middle-of-the-road political philosophy which mirrors a broad cross section of business thinking; he calls it "intelligent conservatism." While his slick, tricked-up papers seem often to reflect the auditor more than the editor in Knight's nature, they are closely identified with their communities and powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee of 50,000 votes.) Thus, Knight's list from Ike to right marks...
...journalism, the Chicago Daily News won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for exposing a 2 1/2-million-dollar fraud in the office of the state auditor of Illinois...
...Stalin's empire was rent by Titoism plus destalinization, Old Iron Pants could point the finger at Khrushchev & Co. as a pack of blunderers. His new job was one which would enable him to do literally this, if so minded. Although functioning in part as a kind of auditor general's department, the Ministry of State Control means what it says: through it the organs of government are controlled, i.e., policed, and it has power to bring charges against any state employee, be he commissar or clerk. Stalin held the office years ago and used it (together with...