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...paid teachers (salary range: $2,650 to $5,650), the board approved $400-a-year raises. But the gesture was quickly hooted down. While 500 angry teachers demonstrated outside school headquarters at no Livingston Street, Brooklyn, nearly 200 who had jammed into the meeting room answered the board's action with angry speeches and boos of derision. Frankly skeptical of a promise to continue fighting for the salary scale ($3,000 to $6,500) recommended by a city fact-finding commission, the teachers defiantly announced that they would continue their boycott: "Thirty-five thousand teachers cannot be charged with...
This week, tired of office and longing to travel to Israel "as a private citizen," Dave Niles resigned his $15,000-a-year White House job. Reluctantly, Harry Truman let him go. "You have been a tower of strength to me," said the President...
...more than a year tiny, 550-watt Station KPFA had been fighting a losing game. Its highbrow FM programs were a big hit with a limited audience in Berkeley, home of the University of California. But without sponsors or commercials it had trouble making ends meet on the $10-a-year subscription fees paid by 300 of its listeners. Last August KPFA finally closed the doors of its two-studio station, regretfully fired its underpaid seven-man staff...
Good Friends. Was Dawson a good friend of Merl Young, the astonishingly successful former RFC employee who simultaneously held a $10,000-a-year job and an $18,000-a-year job with two RFC borrowers? Yes, but "it was a natural and good friendship ... I never had any business dealings with Mr. Young...
...Millions. Smooth, fast-talking Lobbyist Bill Treadwell, who works for Britain's Tea Bureau, claims he has boosted U.S. tea consumption 17 million lbs. a year, largely by getting tea scenes into 83 movies in two years. His greatest coup: persuading Warner to change the name of its musical, No! No! Nanette! to Tea for Two. (In return, Treadwell used some of the Tea Bureau's $2,000,000-a-year promotion fund to squire a couple of starlets on a 14-city tour as "Miss Iced Tea for Two" and "Miss...