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...second case, the Court split right down the middle-4-4. The question was whether a Government employee has a right to confront the accuser in a loyalty hearing. The employee involved is 40-year-old Dorothy Bailey, an $8,000-a-year training officer in the United States Employment Service. She had been called Communist by undisclosed FBI informants. Since the Court couldn't reach an agreement, the lower court's verdict stood: that Miss Bailey had no right to face her accusers, had been properly fired...
...Army cut the draft quota from 40,000 in May down to 20,000 in June. The aircraft industry was still jogging along on a 40-hour week, pleading for skilled technicians, far behind Harry Truman's expansive prediction of a 15,000-a-year rate by year's end; they would be lucky to reach a rate of 500 a month. In many defense plants, retooling was behind schedule. Manufacturers scornfully called DO (Defense Order) priority certificates "merely hunting licenses...
...horse sense to good use when he became comptroller of Loeser's department store in Brooklyn in 1928. He revamped Loeser's antiquated accounting system, helped keep it on an even keel when the Wall Street crash swamped many a retail store, became its $50,000-a-year president in 1931. Three years later, he was boss of Hahn Department Stores, a shaky nationwide 57-unit chain...
After 100 days in Washington, General Lucius D. Clay last week gave up his unpaid Government job as assistant to Charles E. Wilson and went back to his $96,000-a-year post as chairman of Continental Can Co. Organized labor had accused him, as it also accused his boss, of slighting their demands and ignoring their case, but labor's opposition had nothing to do with his going. Lucius Clay had volunteered to help Wilson temporarily, had set his resignation date for March...
...committee had hardly left New York before the powder which had spilled during ex-Fireman Crane's confession began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job which Bill O'Dwyer had given him last summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance...