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"What is needed is a strong controllership," he said.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022

Cranston lost the senatorial nomination to Salinger in 1964 and the controllership itself in the 1966 near-sweep by Republicans that saw Ronald Reagan defeat Democrat Pat Brown to become Governor and Rafferty re-elected schools superintendent.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the death of Louis XV., he was recommended by Maurepas to a far more important office, the controllership of finance.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Accounts were passed by year and year, The auditors would then appear, And his controllership of grain Must his accounts and stock explain.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John

The office of the controllership of the royal exchequer must be held by such a person as that office requires.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen