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...nearly three-quarters of a century, the London cats have had to make do on their 1873 scale; the cats in Manchester have struggled along on a mere one shilling. The only other British workers so discriminated against, reported the Guardian, are Britain's ?5,000-a-year high court judges, who likewise have had no raises since...
Good Beats. The stories were often beats, good exclusives. When the state legislature passed a "sneak" bill to pension its former members-including a $12,000-a-year lifetime pension for ex-Governor and ex-Convict James M. Curley (TIME, Sept. 15)-the Post was the first paper to spot it, rode it so hard that the bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being...
Eight Intimates. On the list of "key officials" who received the money were eight names, all of men close to Stevenson. His $1,500-a-year publicity man, William I. Flanagan, assigned to build the governor into national prominence, had received almost half of the fund: $7,900. Others on the list: Legal Counsel Carl McGowan, $3,000; Insurance Director Day and Welfare Director Hoehler, $2,000 each; ex-Finance Director Mitchell and State Police Superintendent Thomas J. O'Donnell, $1,000 each; Administrative Assistant Lawrence Irvin, $750; Justice Schaefer...
...rule, never let his son make much of a mark for himself. In 1948 Bob Jr. divorced his wife and married Jane Sevier Smith, a widow with two children. His father, a stern Presbyterian who did not believe in divorce, fired him from his $45,000-a-year...
...began bitterly fighting council policies. "As a matter of fact," recalls Curry, "when a councillor first suggested that I take the job, I thought he was joking. It was beyond my wildest dreams of fancy." Now the man who once tutored undergraduates in languages is the $20,000-a-year manager of one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, a position nationally respected and studied by students of government everywhere...