Warren, Lindsay Carter, 1889-1976

President Harry S. Truman laying the cornerstone of the new $25,000,000 Government Accounting Office building in Washington, D. C., and in a speech following the ceremony, he defended the federal budget against criticism conceived in "ignorance, and malice." Photograph is autographed by Frank L. Yates, Assistant Comptroller General of the United States; W. Englebert Reynolds, Commissioner of Public Buildings; Lindsay C. Warren, Comptroller General of the United States, and John McShain, Builder. Original is oversized.

Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren holds a copy of the report he made to Congress in which he charged that fraud and waste in wartime contracting had cost American taxpayers millions of dollars. Warren said that his audits of about $1,165,000,000 in contract settlements to date showed irregularities amounting to more than $11,500,000. From: Beth Gore.

Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren, appearing before the Mead Committee today, said that "everybody and his brother," apparently encouraged by laxity of Federal War Profit Renegotiation laws, "were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Warren told the committee that untold billions were "given away" by the Government during renegotiations of war contracts From: Beth Gore.