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...test case, Washington's U.S. District Judge Richmond Keech, a Democrat, ruled that the Department of Justice had a right to dismiss Attorney Leo A. Roth from his $10,800-a-year job. Roth, who was fired last June, insisted that he had unassailable civil-service status. Judge Keech held that the President has unlimited power to decide which jobs "shall be excluded or excepted from the classified civil service...
...decided that life would be much more attractive if his mother and father were out of the way. The elder Fradens lived simply and both worked-Mrs. Fraden as a $6,3OO-a-year teacher in the public schools, her husband, a physician, at a $6,800-a-year post in the city health department. But they had managed to set aside a considerable nest egg; counting insurance, savings, pension benefits and some jewelry, they were worth in the neighborhood of $96,000-dead. Harlow found it ridiculously easy to kill his parents...
...take a book home and read it some night because he hadn't read a book in five years," I fired him . . . The whole incident was only a temporary setback, however, because he is still in the school system and has recently been appointed to a $9,000-a-year post. There are no rewards in the U.S. save for mediocrity, and it must be of an inferior grade. FRANCIS LYNCH Los Angeles
...after he retired from his $6,000-a-year professorship, Papa Miller threw himself into a strange hobby. "Everything I have," he once told his lawyer, "I received from the university, and I want to repay my obligation." And so, knowing nothing at all about business...
Virginius Frank Coe, 46, first cited by Chambers in 1939, was technical secretary of the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference in 1944, became secretary of Harry D. White's prize product, the International Monetary Fund, and was not dismissed from this $20,000-a-year job until December 1952 -shortly after he refused to answer congressional questions...