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...friends that he clearly intended to retire from active politics. The demands of public life had become burdensome, he said; his job was a "killer." Moreover, he felt he owed it to himself and his family to better his financial situation (in 1937 he turned down a $150,000-a-year offer from a New York law firm) while his earning powers were still at their height. And he was not swayed by a state constitutional amendment doubling the governor's salary (to $50,000) and increasing his pension. Said Dewey: "If personal finances ever enter into holding public...
Irving McNeil Ives had no hankering after the headaches that go with the $50,000-a-year job of running New York State. He liked his Senate job in Washington, and the specter of a rough-and-tumble campaign this fall was not pleasant to contemplate. Mrs. Ives agreed. "All I want to do," she sighed, "is go home and raise petunias." But last week, after hours of maneuvering with Tom Dewey (see above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although...
Abraham Chasanow, an $8,360-a-year employee of the Navy Hydrographic Office just outside Washington, had lived under the shadow of a doubt ever since July 29, 1953, when he was suspended from his job. One security board refused to believe the charge that he was a Communist sympathizer. A higher board reversed the ruling and ordered him fired. When the Chasanow case broke into print (TIME, May 10), Assistant Secretary of the Navy James H. Smith Jr. ordered the case reopened...
...efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
...Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...