Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basil Walters, ruddy, snow-topped executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, was chomping his cigar in his Chicago Daily News office one morning last May when a visiting politician handed him a king-size story to bite on. The politician's tip: Illinois State Auditor Orville E. (for Enoch) Hodge's office was in deep financial trouble. The tip was surprising, since Hodge, often mentioned as a Republican candidate for Illinois' governor in 1960, is a popular official who has created the impression that he has a private fortune to support his expensive tastes, e.g., monogrammed...
...story. But by last week Thiem's digging had unearthed the biggest state scandal in years, spread it across Page One in Illinois papers from Waukegan to Cairo. Fearful that the scandal could rock Republican chances at the polls in November, Governor William Stratton last week ordered Auditor Hodge to 1) withdraw as a candidate for reelection, 2) double his surety bond (to $100,000) within 20 days or be fired...
Under New Management. Born in upstate New York, Shield graduated from Rutgers ('17), and after service as a test pilot during World War I, landed a job with A. & P. as an accounting clerk and rose to general auditor in four years. In 1924 J. Spencer Weed, a onetime A. & P. vice president, hired him away to be contrailer of the venerable, 500-store Jones Brothers Tea Co. Four years later, after Weed and Shield had put Jones Brothers in the black, they regrouped it with several smaller chains into Grand Union Co. But over the years, Weed...
...almost entirely by a $7,250,000 inheritance tax windfall from the estate of Industrialist Lammot du Pont, who died in 1952. Lately, however, alarmists in Delaware have cried that rising costs would put the state in the red by the end of fiscal 1956. Last week State Auditor Clifford Hall pacified his fearful fellow citizens, reminded them of the bittersweet fact that Industrialist Eugene du Pont had died in 1954. Delaware's take: $4,500,000-the harbinger of another pleasant surplus...
...seniors only. Similar oversubscription is true to a lesser degree in all undergraduate courses, usually by as much as 25 percent. The popular Fine Arts 13 is faced every fall with students overflowing into the aisles, on folding chairs, and practically on the stage. The result is that the auditor is almost non-existent in Fine Arts...