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...Whereas years ago the small individually owned and operated institution was run by a man of native genius and little or no system, today there is probably more actual system and organization in the retail store than in any other organization. Such terms as Inventory Control, Organization Statistics, Sales Audit, etc. which are common enough in these enlightened days, would have been utterly unimaginable twenty-five or fifty years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 4/30/1929 | See Source »

This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lineage | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...jurist Wang Chung-hui, onetime representative of China on the World Court. The third or Legislative Yuan is a large council of from 49 to 99 members, with parliamentary initiative. The fourth and fifth Yuans are those of Examination ("Civil Service") and Council Control (having powers of impeachment and audit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yen to Nanking | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Almost eleven years ago, when the perfunctory audit of the Home Mission Board was completed, a tall, ascetic-looking auditor made apt suggestions, so impressed the star Boarders that they sent for him a few months later when the treasurer of the Home Mission Board resigned. The job included control of the board's funds, paid a salary of $4,500 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bad Angel | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...last he closed his desk, said was going North on business. A few days later a series of revelations and a contemporaneous series of shocks began. Treasurer Carnes's accounts were audited-no perfunctory audit, this-and Baptists earned that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bad Angel | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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