Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back at his office, Mr. Gadsden found that in his absence a Black committee investigator named Blomquist had ransacked both his official and personal files. "He actually went through my personal checkbook," cried the furious utilitarian. "I think it's an outrage...
...contributions were needed for the Zeiss projector, whose standard price of $110,000 was rapidly mounting in terms of Roosevelt dollars. On his round of wealthy citizens who might help, President Davison last week dropped in on Mr. Hayden. To his surprise and joy Mr. Hayden flipped out his checkbook, wrote him a check for $150,000, enough to make further contribution-seeking unnecessary. When Mr. Hayden had got his feelings under control, he explained his benefaction thus: "It has been said many times that science has a tendency to make one less religious. With this thought I radically disagree...
...made the first chief of the new General Accounting Office by President Harding on July 1, 1921. By law he holds office for 15 years, is ineligible for reappointment, can be removed only by Congress. Politically independent of the Government. Comptroller McCarl is the supreme keeper of its checkbook and therefore the best-hated man in public service. He interprets the literal law of Congress as to how money should be spent and from his decisions there is no appeal. The legal authority for spending 5? is as important to him as a $1,000,000,000 appropriation. A short...
...Isotta-Fraschini salesman was twiddling his thumbs in the company's swank Manhattan showroom. An Isotta-Fraschini is not sold every day. A passerby stopped, peered in. When he came in and started inquiring about the one he liked, the salesman was courteous. When he pulled out a checkbook, asked for a pen, the salesman was startled. When he wrote out a check for $18,500, departed leaving directions that the car be sent to the New York Athletic Club, the salesman looked at the check, was amazed. The signatory was BELIEVE IT OR NOT, INC., Robert L. Ripley...
...philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work. In time the new paper attained some 20,000 circulation (practically...