Word: audits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors, with individual contracts; lower salaried union workers-film cutters, projectionists, sound technicians, "grips" (property movers), laboratory workers. On the assumption that the unions would accept the cut, the high-salaried employes held meetings of their own and agreed to share their employers' woes, only demanding an audit of studio books first. Cinemactress Marie Dressier wired her acceptance. Writer Laurence Stallings said he was "proud to be the first" to take the cut. Cinemactors Jack Oakie and Stuart Erwin were still arguing when earthquake shook the walls. Both grabbed pens and signed their new contracts. Not until the high...
...Democratic Governor was empowered by the Democratic Legislature to reorganize the State government, now scattered among 168 boards and commissions, into eight departments-Executive, State, Audit, Treasury, Law, Education, Public Works, Commerce & Industry. A member of each department, he is to control its activities over the possible opposition of constitutional officers, by a majority vote of his own appointees. He was authorized to hire & fire at will all State employes, and those who are not rehired as part of the reorganization before June 30 are automatically out of jobs. He is free to juggle salaries up & down to suit...
Eleven days after a pistol shot in Paris put an end to Ivar Kreuger's fantastic dreams of a match empire, Price, Waterhouse & Co. sat down to audit the Kreuger books. Within a month they pronounced Ivar Kreuger a crook. But until last week when Price, Waterhouse issued the final report on their world-wide investigation, no one knew precisely how good a crook or how great a swindler Ivar Kreuger really...
...large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...
...That the Telegram discovered its figure of 35,610 for October 1931 was too high, reduced it by 912 although Audit Bureau of Circulations believed the deduction too large...