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...handbills and placards said that the demonstrating students were out to help the high-school teachers get more money. Gist of the teachers' demands: $600-a-year raises all around (on salaries ranging from $2,500 to $5,325*) to meet rising living costs. Until they got the raises, the teachers had announced, they would boycott all extracurricular activities. They would refuse to coach athletics, direct school plays, advise the editors of student papers and yearbooks, supervise student clubs or chaperon school proms...
...Lucius DuBignon Clay, 53, General, U.S.A. (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. forces in Europe and military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, took over the $96,000-a-year chairmanship of the $250 million Continental Can Co. General Clay resigned last November as president of the Ecusta Paper Corp. after seven weeks' service, when the company was acquired by Olin Industries, whose principal business is the manufacture of cartridges and small arms. Old Soldier Clay thought he should stay out of the munitions business...
...real-estate lobby's most energetic spokesman is a solemn-looking Midwesterner named Herbert U. Nelson. As the $25,000-a-year executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, he once undertook to set the populace straight on the postwar housing shortage: there was no shortage at all, he said, just an "overconsumption of space." He was also the first man alert enough to link that stalwart Ohio conservative, Bob Taft, with the Communists-because Taft sponsored a public housing bill...
Birdsall never lacked the best of care. At first the state and county split most of the $6,000-a-year cost of his iron lung and nursing care. In 1939, when he became 21, and ineligible for crippled children's aid, Governor Herbert Lehman rushed through arrangements to provide other funds. From the first, he was faithfully attended by the same physician, Dr. Scott Lord Smith...
After RFC approved the $6,000,000 loan to closed-down Waltham Watch Co. last year, RFC's New England .Regional Director John J. Hagerty resigned his $10,330-a-year job to become Waltham's president at $30,000 a year. Despite RFC's help, Waltham again stopped ticking two months ago, and laid off its 1,231 employees. Last week Hagerty was back on RFC's payroll at $10,330 a year and wearing a more impressive title than before: special assistant to RFC's board of directors...