Word: voucher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out "whether the Hygiene Department is giving the best possible service for the fee charged." This failure is due to the peculiar nature of University expense accounting; to discover what happens to the student's $15, the committee would have had to examine every invoice and voucher for a year of Hygiene Department operation, a task which even the U. S. Government auditors, who looked at the books when the University held war-time Army and Navy contracts, found difficult...
...informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense, the President needed more than ever...
Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought...