Word: audits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Checking Account. In Ada, Ohio, after National Bank President Anson Gear was held up at gun point while thieves robbed his bank, the board of directors conducted a special audit to determine the losses ($7,037), then filed charges that President Gear had embezzled $17,500 over the past eight years...
...group of janitors petitioned Mulvihill for the meeting, asking the HUERA head to present a full audit of the union's finances. When the pro-Mulvihill faction among the janitors heard of the petition, they called it an AFL plot to destroy the HUERA...
...came dramatically. In Indianapolis, the reporters following Stevenson were routed out of bed at 3 a.m. and assembled in a makeshift pressroom. They were handed thick envelopes containing a prepared statement by Stevenson and a bulky audit of the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee's 1948 campaign fund. Stevenson was not on hand; there was no press conference at which the reporters could question the candidate. The prepared statement closed with an announcement obviously calculated to take Stevenson off the defensive: both he and Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman were going to make public their income-tax returns...
Post-Campaign Funds. The audit showed that at least $13,000 of the surplus in the 1948 campaign fund came from postcampaign contributions, made after Stevenson was elected governor. Among these was one anonymous item of $5,000. entered exactly a week after the election. Many businessmen who sell supplies to the state were on the contributors' list, e.g., Stuyvesant Peabody Jr., president of the Peabody Coal Co., whose firm sells thousands of dollars worth of coal to the state. He gave...
...Colorado, all professional boxers must get their brain waves tested regularly. Doctors audit the electronic rhythms inside each fighter's skull, 1) at least once a year, 2) within two weeks after he has been knocked out, and 3) often and repeatedly if his wave patterns look strange. After examining 24 boxers during a year, two Denver doctors reported their findings last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association...