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...Embro, Ont., later moved to Chicago. Young Stuart's first paid job (17½? an hour), after he left Princeton in 1906, was sweeping the floors of the Quaker mill at Peterboro, Ont. Later he returned to the U.S. to work his way up to the $80,000-a-year top executive...
...aside ten acres as a communal vegetable garden, and is refurbishing the town recreation hall. Each resident will get medical care (at $2 a month) and free treatment at the eight-bed hospital. Kem hopes that, by guaranteeing $10,000-a-year income and a rent-free house, he can lure a full-time doctor to Ryderwood. Kem has no fears that the oldtimers' lives will be dull: he is leaving the interiors of the houses alone, so that the buyers can fix them up to their own taste. He also hopes to lease a factory building to some...
Dilapidated and wobbly as it is, the grotesque Japanese pagoda is the year-round headquarters for the $85,000-a-year rowing industry. When the crew returns from lumber mills and yacht clubs in September, it removes the 18 long, slim shells from the racks and rows every day until ice forms on the river. Then the Oriental barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew...
...Representatives in 1939 to serve until this year. As a Congressman, he introduced few bills, made few speeches, concentrated on hard, effective committee work. From 1947 through last year, he was chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He managed to stay out of the bitter nomination battle .between Taft and Eisenhower, bustled around the convention hall in Chicago wearing one of those buttons proclaiming: "I like everybody." When the balloting came, he liked Ike. later became a key figure making arrangements on the Eisenhower campaign train. He has resigned his $30,000-a-year judgeship, will serve the G.O.P...
Three hours after the committee reported in Topeka, Wes Roberts slipped into a side door of the White House with a letter in his pocket. He handed Dwight Eisenhower his resignation as the $32,500-a-year national chairman, and then issued a bitter statement: "I have resigned because a carefully contrived and thinly veiled plot growing out of a fierce factional fight in Kansas state politics has destroyed my usefulness as national chairman." President Eisenhower issued a quiet statement of his own: "I believe his decision a wise...