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Almost everywhere that Crosby went, he was greeted with hostility that slowly turned into warmth. Everybody admitted that he meant well. After hearing his speech, the State Certified Public Accountants Association presented him with an electric lantern and a sign reading: "A modern Diogenes in search of an honest man." But this week, as the personal-property returns were beginning to come in, no one—not even the modern Diogenes—thought that many of them could be 100% honest.