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...minded much but 44-year-old James Boyd, a mining engineer, father of four small sons, and former dean of Colorado School of Mines. Because Lewis' miners in Colorado, as elsewhere, are opposed to Boyd, Colorado's Republican Eugene Millikin blocked his confirmation to the $10,000-a-year Government job. So for the past 14 months Boyd has not drawn a nickel in pay. He got by, he said, by "adjusting my family's resources" and growing vegetables...
...useful chores ever since he first hung out his law shingle in Clarksburg, W. Va. 37 years ago. At 26 he was the Democratic majority floor leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He returned from World War I as an infantry captain, soon became a $40,000-a-year corporation lawyer. But he never strayed far from politics...
...brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...Washington went Oilman James A. Moffett. As chairman of two of Aramco's affiliated companies, and onetime $125,000-a-year vice president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and later of Standard Oil Co. of California, gregarious Jimmy Moffett knew the oil business inside & out. As onetime Federal Housing Administrator and an old friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he also knew politics and politicos. He soon fixed things so that Ibn Saud was taken care of. But Jimmy Moffett complained that nobody ever took care of him for being such an influential person. Six years later he sued Aramco...
...Gaunt, good-looking William Walter Remington got back his $10,330-a-year job with the Commerce Department. The nation's top loyalty board had rejected ex-Red Spy Elizabeth Bentley's testimony that he was a dues-paying comrade, decided he was not disloyal...