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...also named Will and his mother added "B" to the boy's to distinguish father and son. He studied finance at Wharton School, worked for the Manhattan accounting firm of Haskins & Sells, helped Charles Evans Hughes investigate New York insurance companies. In 1906 Roosevelt I named him assistant auditor of Puerto Rico. Three years later he was called home to overhaul Philadelphia's accounting system, became chief accountant in the office of the city controller. He did so good a job that in a few years he was recognized as an international authority on municipal finance...
...weeks ago Forrest Smith, State Auditor of Missouri, was buzzing about the Treasury Department in Washington. "Wouldn't the U. S. coin one and five-mill pieces," he begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...
...manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when Mr. Chrysler invited him to design the first Chrysler engine. He remained to build succeeding models as chief engineer. Mr. Hutchinson, onetime auditor with Ernst & Ernst, onetime treasurer of American Writing Paper Co., performed his first big task as treasurer for Walter Chrysler in 1922 by bagging $12,000,000 in bank loans while money experts were raising their eyebrows at the company's shaky capital structure. Last March when Treasurer Hutchinson...
From the Hollywood Bowl last week many an auditor glanced up at a hill 1,000 ft. away where, once an evening, a spot light picked out a man in a flowing robe stumbling along with a cross. In an out door theatre beneath the hill was being performed the Pilgrimage Play, a 15-year-old event in California. Compiled by the late Christine Wetherill Stevenson, a rich Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals...
After confiscating all the Escaper's property in Germany and deducting its value from the unspecified amount of tax, the Nazi auditor figured meticulously that the former Minister of Justice owes his country 33,548 marks and 93 pfennigs, plus interest at 120% per annum since his escape, bringing the total bill to exactly 80,517 marks and 42 pfennigs...