Word: audits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion unless they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit showed at least $350,000 had vanished. Also raised when the County Board called Bob Sweitzer...
...much bigger explaining job for Dr. Morgan and friends was an official TVA audit prepared by the one man who has power to pry into all the books and accounts of every New Deal agency- Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. His job is as nearly politics-proof as can be, for only Congress can remove him during his 15-year term and he is not eligible for reappointment.* And it was a notable show of independence for Mr. McCarl to be critical of TVA, for the soft-spoken Comptroller General with his flowing Windsor tie was once secretary, close friend...
...preparation for the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City next month, the officers last week published in the A. M. A. Journal an audit of their activities. A noteworthy item revealed that at last the Association had stopped losing members. On April 1, 99,536 of the country's 164,514 doctors belonged...
...Pending the Government's courtroom audit of the ransom bills, the defense line is unpredictable...
...preserve the seats of their trousers as long as possible, French bureaucrats sit on round pieces of leather, are known derisively as les ronds-de-cuir. Cozily last week they closed the books on the French Budget of 1916, obtained the Senate's approval for their final audit which showed a deficit of 22 billion (old style) francs or 110 billion present-day gold francs. When a Senator protested at the ronds-de-cuir delay, Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin hotly assured him that a mighty reform is under way which will permit all French budgets to be closed...