Word: audits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Outdoor Advertising Association of America held its 44th annual convention in Chicago. In the "Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
...Business was assembled in Washington last week for its first grand audit of the New Deal. From the length & breadth of the land went 1,400 businessmen for the 22nd annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Behind the Chambermen and their fellow capitalists lay a year of solid recovery. In 1933 they had assembled with their hearts in their throats and despair in their hearts. Last week their hearts were almost back to normal. President Henry Ingraham Harriman keynoted on "American Progress under American Methods...
...plant and the votes counted by certified public accountants. The vote was 3,152 for the company union, 1,995 for the A. F. of L. Organized Labor screamed that the election was dishonest. The company admitted that it had paid for printing the ballots, hired the accountants to audit the result, but insisted that the election had been held by orders of the representatives of its employes. General Johnson countered with the emphatic assurance that a new election would be held...
...bank's directors had met weekly. Three of them had made a special audit of the bank's affairs and their report was on the table for any stockholder to look...
...rowing committee; after long illness; in Manhattan. As U. S. bankers for the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger, Lee. Higginson sold some $150,000,000 of Kreuger securities. When Kreuger's suicide toppled the match empire, odium fell on Lee, Higginson for not having insisted on a U. S. audit. Patrician Banker Allen, with seven other directors of International Match Co. (Kreuger affiliate) were sued for negligence by the trustee in bankruptcy (TIME. Sept...