 Why did the Treasury Department want Orison McCall to apply for a job at the William Howard Taft National Bank and Trust Company?
This laissez-faire policy of Taft Bank's might explain why she'd been selected from the Treasury Department's secretarial pool to apply for work here, she thought. And what the William Howard Taft National Bank and Trust Company needs is a joint raid by forces of the U.S. Treasury Department and the American Psychiatric Association. Her boss in Washington had told her that this job of hers, spying on Taft Bank from within, might prove dangerous. Orison briefed her pillow on the Earmuffs, on her task of reading to a microphone, and on the generally mimsy tone of the William Howard Taft National Bank and Trust Company. Orison flung the shoe and the pillow under her bed, and resolved to write Washington for permission to make her future reports by registered mail.
 To gather information about their unusual people and banking practices.
 To gather information about their unusual people and banking practices.  To do an official audit of the bank’s books.  To provide the bank employees with training.  To read text into a microphone.