Word: countersigns
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...French feminist; and Madame the Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore, a onetime village librarian who of late has been outstanding in French child welfare leagues. Under French law these ladies have no vote and, should one have occasion to sign a check while in office, her husband must countersign it to make it legal...
...Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, whom President Roosevelt lately made watchdog of all emergency as well as regular Government expenditures, lay last week warrants for $100,000,000 worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...
...second plan, considerably more liberal, would allow the guest to pay for his own meal. In cases where this is desired, a special slip would be provided; in one blank space the guest would fill in the name of his House; in another place the host would affix his countersign. The difficulties of book-keeping should not be measurably increased, for these special slips could be separated, sent to the House where the guest resides, added to his own slips, and then counted in with his quota. The countersign of the host would be required and would insure practically...
...clarified by President Eliot in a letter of May 29, 1893. In effect, the president and fellows of Harvard University agreed that the institute founded by the society should have a name--"X College"; that they should be the visitors of X College, and that the president should countersign the diplomas of X College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name of the proposed college that of Ann Radcliffe, Lady...
Other banks, of course, will follow. But none yet accommodates the needy borrower in every respect. If he has no willing friends to countersign his note to a "Morris Plan" (7%) or "National City-Marine Trust Plan" (6%) bank, he must pawn his household goods, automobile or other personal possessions with whatever moneylender he can wheedle, at the highest rate the lender dares command. Nor is it easy to get endorsers, since persons with sufficient money sense to become acceptable guarantors are not promiscuous with their signatures...