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...Johnson's Government service, Steptoe & Johnson was doing better & better. Its list of clients became a sort of Burke's Peerage of the nation's corporations: Consolidated Vultee, Montgomery Ward, New York Life Insurance. Louis Johnson himself became a director of Consolidated and the $50,000-a-year president of the General Dyestuff Corp., the sales agency for General Aniline & Film, which had been seized as a Nazi asset by the Alien Property Custodian...
...Withdrew, after once vowing that he never would, the nomination of his old poker pal, former Governor Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, as $14,000-a-year chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which did not think ex-Senator Wallgren was up to the job, had pigeonholed the nomination for three months...
Last winter, it came close. New York City's Board of Higher Education was ready to name Bryn J. Hovde, historian (The Scandinavian Countries), housing expert and head of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, to the $15,000-a-year job. But some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where...
...heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
When President John J. McCloy of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development quit his job last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the bank, as all good businesses should, had someone to step into his shoes. Into the $30,000-a-year (tax free*) presidency went the U.S. Executive Director Eugene Robert Black, 51, senior vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank...