Word: audits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council to invest $3400 in various Freshman affairs over a period of five years. It is true that $2700 of this money was returned to the Council, but what of the balance of $700, what of the scholarships that could be granted for that money, and what system of auditing was employed to insure that this money was not spent to cover the inefficiencies of a Dance Committee here, or for free entertainment at a Smoker there? The audit of the Student Council Treasurer, as provided by the Constitution, is entirely too perfunctory to afford much assurance. Certain choice details...
Whimsical, perverse, doubtful Vag has been the wry, yet sometimes sentimental, humorist of the editorial page since the end of 1926. At first, "The Student Vagabond" embodied an anonymous impersonal editor who would recommend certain lectures for possible browsers to audit. Eventually and inevitably, however, Vag's name stirred editorial imagination, and two years after his creation, he was becoming a composite of the lackadaisical, as well as the wise, Harvard...
...civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus, etc. with a hardboiled: "The military comes first. The civilians will have to get along as best they can." Over a year and a half ago, General Gasser charged into the Army's combing-out job, leading 14 "personnel audit" teams...
...lone star swell with pride. Bob Hicks and John Justice agitated the roundup early in the evening--Bob with a hometown Temple date. All in all it was a memorable evening--from the first introduction to the noisy ride back. Nevertheless the boys have decided to have Mr. Hansen audit Rod's books...
...World Divided. In the last analysis, everything in Author Lippmann's audit comes down to the question of relations between just two powers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "They can prevent a third World War. If they fight, it will be the most terrible of all world wars." But if Russia remains within her orbit, they have no reasons to fight. They would certainly fight "if the Soviet Union made an alliance with Germany, with Japan, or a separate and exclusive alliance with any member of the Atlantic Community"-for example, France...