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...Stroock & Co., Inc., as her target. President Sylvan Stroock offered her something less than a million, but Elsie took the job anyway-at $20 a week. By last week chic, shrewd Mrs. Murphy had still not made her million. But, at 41, she did become the $35,000-a-year president of the company (Sylvan Stroock moved himself up to the new post of board chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bottle Baby | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...made a federal judge, gave up his $100,000-a-year practice and went to work for $15,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After nearly 3½ years as the watchdog of Wall Street, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Edmond M. Hanrahan, 44, decided that it was time to watch his family's financial security and his wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: On the Move | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...passage of the aid bill came word of the President's first choice as director of the arms-for-Europe program: 56-year-old James Bruce, ex-Maryland stock farmer and international banker, who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. If he takes the $16,000-a-year job, Bruce will direct the flow and placement of U.S. weapons in Europe as ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman now directs Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Day Will Come | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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