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...AUDITED BY OUTSIDE AUDITORS AT THE TIME THEY ARE CURRENTLY ISSUED STOP . . . FEW COMPANIES HAVE THEIR STATEMENTS AUDITED BY OUTSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS MORE THAN ONCE A YEAR AND MANY LESS FREQUENTLY STOP OUR COMPANIES IN ADDITION IN MOST CASES OF MAKING PERIODIC REPORTS TO THE STATE AUTHORITIES MAINTAIN A MOST CAPABLE AND A MOST EXTENSIVE AUDITING DEPARTMENT AND OUR STATEMENTS ARE ALSO AUDITED AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS BY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS STOP . . . IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF THESE AUDITS NO FIRM OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS HAS EVER DISAGREED WITH THE WORK OF OUR OWN AUDITORS EXCEPT ON TRIVIAL AND MINOR MATTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...President's first concern was to dam the rising tide of wage cuts. For a few hours last week it looked almost as if his administration's policy, laid down in 1929, to maintain existing pay schedules had been reversed. Representative Condon of Rhode Island, scene of recent textile strikes, wrote Secretary of Commerce Lamont complaining of wage reductions, asking for Federal support to stop them. Mr. Lamont replied: "As the period of depression lengthens, many corporations find themselves in extremely difficult positions. Many of them have already cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: When Winter Comes | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Thus began, with serious pomp, an intensive British sightseeing tour in Soviet Russia. But two of Britain's most irrepressible characters were not disposed to maintain their tour on such a great-man-&-great-lady basis. As is their custom, they cavorted and japed in the most public places. Only at the Red Square in Moscow, where they gazed upon the mummy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), was Dramatist-Publicist Shaw as dignified as his impressive appearance. Over the corpse he commented: "A pure intellectual type. This is the true aristocracy." Other parts of the Shaw-Astor itinerary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Distinguished Visitors | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...left their desks. Lewis J. Proctor, U. S. manager of Telefonica, was severely beaten as he tried to leave his office. Dock workers went out in a sympathy strike, so did employes of the gas works. The Government rushed destroyers and a squadron of airplanes up from Cartagena to maintain order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Syndicato v. Telefonica | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Securities. Declines in railroad stocks and bonds, due to reduced earnings, have jeopardized their status as legal investment for savings banks, insurance companies and trusts. Carrier credit must be maintained for future improvements. "All that is necessary to maintain an adequate national system of transportation is that the country should be willing to pay a reasonable price for it and that railway investors and railway managements should be able to act on that assurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Rivers, Roads & Rates | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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