Word: voucherization
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...espionage, sabotage-as the NSC might require. Its budget has never been published, though respectable estimates run it into the hundreds of millions of dollars. CIA Director Allen Dulles, who succeeded General Walter Bedell Smith in the job, is the only U.S. agency head who may sign a personal voucher for any part of his organization's budget with no public questions asked...
...discussion were taken seriously, there are quite enough sanctimonious advocates of local sovereignty and local virtue to ratify a Constitutional amendment forbidding any conditions on grants to schools. But most legislators seem to enjoy attaching puerile riders to appropriations, whether conservatives demanding a voucher of immaculate political conception, do-gooders trying to promote social justice by turning every classroom into a racial checkerboard, or liberals in terror of the establishment of a City of God on earth...
Snorted one ranking Republican as the newsmen's story hit Capitol Hill: Voucher padding in Congress is no different from that done by "businessmen, publishers, LIFE reporters and photographers." Said another: "It used to be that a fellow used to take his secretary on trips and call her his wife. Now a guy takes his wife and calls her his secretary." But one Congressman was not laughing. To Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, whose House is like a second home, the scandal was a direct reflection on the whole of Congress. Furious over the conduct of his members...
...made out a voucher to the director of the government-run Agrarian Bank, who in turn filled out two checks for 500.000 quetzales each to Alfonso Martínez (boss of the agrarian-reform program) and Colonel Carlos Enrique Díaz (head of the armed forces). They gave the checks back to Sierra Franco, who cashed them for blue 20-quetzal bills and grey 100-quetzal bills. He took the million, stuffed in a big canvas bag, back to Arbenz' office and turned it over to the President, Mart...
...then, you make me fearfully tired. It has to do largely with your accounting and record-keeping department." Another was part of an argument over whether a bill had been paid (it had been), in which he wrote on June 23, 1926: "I hesitate to send you the original voucher, because your methods to date persuade me that you are not to be trusted with important documents." (Italics...