Word: vouchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Money came seldom and trouble often. Once, on an unconventional camping trip, the poet scalded his right foot by stepping in a pot of hot bean soup. Police said he had been dancing in the moonlight. He demanded relief for poets from a municipal relief agency. Given a $2.50 voucher for groceries, he complained that he had no home, no way of cooking the groceries, and cried indignantly that he was unable to eat the voucher itself. He was reported dying of tuberculosis, and 50 Greenwich Village poets and painters organized a fund drive to send him West. They raised...