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...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...
...districts, and a controversial Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction was crushed by 150,-000 votes. And one Ohio county (Lucas), with rare selectivity, voted Republican for President. Congressman, state treasurer and secretary of state, while favoring Democrats for U.S. Senator, governor, lieutenant governor and state auditor...
...traditionally Democratic Hudson County, whose two House seats the Democrats had considered money in the bank. In the 14th District, bumptious Democrat T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty, whose boast it was that he carried more weight (330 Ibs.) than any man in Congress, ran well behind 49-year-old Auditor Vincent J. null In the 13th District, 45-year-old Major Alfred Sieminski, a Princeton-educated laundry operator who was elected to the House in 1950 while serving in Korea, apparently lost (by 200 votes) to Republican Norman Roth, assistant counsel to the county board of education...
...Illinois' Republican Governor Billy Stratton, carrying the deadly weight of the embezzlement scandal in the state auditor's office, got boxed into a corner throughout most of the hours of vote-counting, barely brushed through on late downstate returns to win over Chicago Judge Richard Austin...