Word: mariene
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...final presentation of the series, on March 6, will present Paul Hindemith's song cycle, "Das Marien Leben." Would it be too much to hope that Mr. Hindemith himself will be there beforehand to tell the audience what to expect...
...most gallant guerrilla stories of the war was brought out of Timor last week by Australian Correspondent Bill Marien...
...would soon be unable to tell its assets from its inventory. Last week, the Manhattan Curb Exchange and the Amsterdam Bourse suspended trading in the stock of Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc. while its officials tried to make sense of its balance sheet. A small, rather bald accountant named Raymond Marien was being held in jail. Accountants all over the country sighed sympathetically...
...when Raymond Marien answered a want ad from the Manhattan accounting firm of Homes & Davis, he had already been in jail once for forgery. But no one at Homes & Davis knew that, and Raymond Marien had a good head for figures. He got the job. He worked hard, and in 1933 he was put in charge of the accounting of Interstate Hosiery. Because of the activities of Mr. Marien, Interstate Hosiery statistics are highly dubious, but a rough guess by officers at its current net assets last week was $925,000. Every month Mr. Marien went to the company mills...
...found him out by comparing his reports with the books at the mill, but nobody did. When, early this month, Homes & Davis accidentally heard what had been going on, they promptly discharged him. Very soon they asked him to come back for a while to straighten things out. Mr. Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could not "account...