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...executives often break down because of the stress of work, psychiatrists have found that the great majority of mental difficulties have their source outside work, are usually only aggravated or brought to the breaking point by a tense on-the-job situation. That rule applies to the $4,000-a-year janitor as well as the $25,000 executive. Though the janitor may be under less pressure at work, he may also be trying to buy a $10,000 home, send five kids through school, deal with a nagging wife...
Hired as president and chief executive officer of the New York Central Railroad in 1954 by the late Robert R. Young, Old Railroader Alfred E. Perlman was given a $100,000-a-year salary and a fat option to buy 32,000 shares of Central stock at 19⅞ But Bob Young did not believe in contracts, would not give Perlman one. Last week the Central's directors acknowledged Perlman's success in improving the road's equipment and operations, after six years on the job signed him to a long-term contract. The terms...
...reckoning, overcharged for parking meters bought by the previous city administration. "Tell them we'll pay $8,000," said Lee to the city attorney, "and if they won't settle for that, they'll have to sue." ¶ Canceled the $2,000-a-year "contingency fund" provided to cover the mayor's out-of-pocket expenses, thereby shamed the four other members of the city commission into giving up their own $500-apiece contingency funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away...
...political patronage system. To build up the power of incumbent Democratic administrations, Kentucky's 23,000 state employees for years were required to "contribute" 2% of their salaries to campaign war chests. Under loudmouthed Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) Albert ("Happy") Chandler, eight $7,200-a-year highway commissioners traveled Kentucky's highways and byways dispensing jobs and rounding up votes; so many weed cutters were hired by the highway department around election time that Kentuckians ruefully calculated the number at two cutters for each weed...
...a-year liquor bill, personal dinners at Manhattan's "21" and Sardi's, the cost of his son's private schooling, the price of two TV sets and two boats at one of his homes in fashionable Westhampton...