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...This Is America." The owners know that they have put no yes-man in the seven-year, $65,000-a-year job. Frick's biggest problem as National League president came in 1947 when he got wind of a projected players' strike against the admission of Negro Jackie Robinson into the league. Frick confronted the players with an ultimatum; "If you do this, you are through, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for ten years. You cannot do this because this is America...
WALL STREET Where to Sell Stocks As the new $100,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange, 40-year-old G. Keith Funston has the job of persuading the U.S. public to buy stocks. Funston, ex-president of Trinity College, thinks the task is similar to teaching young students the fundamentals of economics. Last week, in the Big Board's monthly, the Exchange, Teacher Funston gave his first lecture...
What does it come to? Several economists recently estimated that if Henry's family is in the $3,500-a-year class, Henry coughs up in the form of state and federal taxes, seen and unseen, about $908 a year, or a little over one-fourth of what he makes. In other words, for 13½ weeks of the year, every morning when the alarm clock rings, Henry sighs, gets up, and goes to work just to earn enough money to pay his taxes...
...year basis, held for 13, becoming one of the early New Deal's most influential behind-the-scene advisers. After Roosevelt's death (which Early announced to Mrs. Roosevelt), he stayed on for three months with Harry Truman, then resigned to take his $25,000-a-year Pullman job, appeared only twice again on the public scene: once on a two-month fill-in at his old White House job, once as Under Secretary to his old friend, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...
...taxes have loaded big corporations with a new problem: how to have & to hold able executives. So much tax is carved out of upper-bracket incomes that corporations find it almost impossible to give a top man a salary increase that will do him any good. The $100,000-a-year man today keeps $48,100 after taxes; figured in terms of 1939 dollars, his take-home pay is only $26,070.* He works part of every day and full time every other day for the Government. As a result, many men who have piled up pension or other benefits...