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...year-old Jerome Morris felt irascibility building up inside him during his whole three months as the superintendent, meter reader and one-man complaint department of the Cleves (pop. 1,981), Ohio water works. He had to work ten, twelve, sometimes 24 hours a day at his $69-a-week job-partly because his predecessor had run off with $4,300 in water funds. Morris' work increased when drought taxed the water system's wells. On top of all this, the town paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept running...
Early in the strike, the Photo-Engravers' Union, which has a minimum scale of $120 to $131 weekly, had cut its demand for a $15-a-week raise to $7.50, v. the $3.75 offered by the publishers. But even though the union's international president wanted to arbitrate the difference, the New York City local's President Denis Burke led the membership in a thumping 287-47 vote against arbitration. The other unions, committed to full cooperation, went along with the engravers' decision...
...Texas Tech, and 1,800 University of Houston students were gathered for a pep rally. After the usual locomotives and siss-boom-bahs, a speaker took the floor -the grey-thatched chairman of the board of regents, 72-year-old Houston Oil Tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen. A onetime $3-a-week candy salesman who wildcatted his way to one of Texas' biggest fortunes, Cullen never went to college, but he takes great pride in his adopted university. The week before, Houston had defeated Baylor 37-7, and Cullen was still aglow with the triumph. "The great spirit and determination...
...first ambition, says Baker, was to be a political cartoonist. After graduating from Colgate University, where he made pocket money by selling caricatures of the faculty, the Poughkeepsie Evening Enterprise hired him as a $21-a-week cartoonist. The next year Baker married, borrowed $500, and took his bride to New York City where he enrolled for evening classes in an industrial art school. This was a mistake, he says. "I lost confidence in myself and got so scared I quit after three months." He decided to go out and simply draw...
...Middlesex Superior Court ruled Randall lost his $90-a-week job last March because of poor health steaming from his injuries. After he lost the job, Randall filed for compensation under the Workman's Compensation Act. The University contested his claim, saying that technically he was not a workman...