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...first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked his way up from Republican doorbell-pusher to precinct captain. He was a 29-year-old, $8,000-a-year law assistant with McNamara & Seymour when he was called into public life as chief assistant to the U.S. Attorney...
...other five of every 100 taxpayers there were other benefits. The optional standard deduction was switched from a flat $500 to 10% of net income (so long as it does not exceed $1,000). Thus, the $8,000-a-year man could list $800 for deductions if he does not choose to itemize them. A bigger saving was in a new allowance after the tax has been computed. For the last two years, this has been a flat 5%. In the new schedules, this subtraction would be 17% on the first $400 of tax, 12% on the rest...
Last week George Hill Jr. dragged it into the open. He quit his $230,000-a-year job as vice president and fired off a blast at American's management. Hill said that American, which had once sold 15% more cigarettes than second-place Camels (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), was now barely ahead. In 1947, Camels had come up till its volume of production was only 1½% under Luckies. The fault, said he, was in the advertising, and "executive decisions with which I am in fundamental disagreement, and in the making of which I have...
...jointly managed. (The Dutch got AKU's other U.S. subsidiary, American Enka Corp.) No sooner had the Government taken over when a squabble broke out between the board of directors and OAP Boss David L. Bazelon, a New Dealing lawyer who had given up a $50,000-a-year law practice to work for the Government...
Tubby, easygoing Fred Emich holds a $6,000-a-year state government job in Illinois, but for good & sufficient reasons he has never forgotten that twelve years ago he was a Chevrolet dealer. Last week his long-extinct dealership made Fred Emich a millionaire, at least on paper...