Word: auditors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Easter week, in a custom 438 years old, elderly men and women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
Misogynist? In Milwaukee, County Auditor Robert Boos submitted the annual report of the annuity and pension board, commented, "There were fewer deaths among women service pensioners than expected. In other respects, however, the experience was favorable...
...situation is actually far from humorous. It's silly, but it's not funny when the Defense Department declines to tell the General Accounting Office about "secret" defense expenditures until the GAO's auditor proves his "need to know." Security has apparently become the last refuge of bureaucracy...
...hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked it at a loss of $2,000,000 three years later. He never founded a paper, but he bought with an auditor's sure eye; in all, Publisher Gannett acquired 30 papers (plus a string of TV and radio stations) in 51 years, merged ten, unloaded only three...
...resigned as president and chief executive of the 10,628-mile Milwaukee Road. A hearty, old-style railroader, Kiley went to work full time for the Milwaukee after graduating as a civil engineer in 1914, bulled his way up as everything from rodman on a survey team to auditor of accounts before becoming president in 1950. His probable successor: Vice President and General Counsel William John Quinn, 46, a former FBI man who went to Milwaukee in 1954 after climbing to vice president and general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. One of Quinn...