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Harold Ickes, onetime Secretary of the Interior, last week confessed to an old sin. He admitted that he was the man behind the mysterious 1945 nomination of Oklahoma Congressman Jed Johnson for a $10,000-a-year lifetime judgeship in the U.S. Customs Court...
WANTED: Ambitious young Democrat, slightly left of center, resident Eastern U.S., effective social presence, proved political success, Protestant. World War II record highly desirable but not imperative. For pleasant, remunerative ($20,000-a-year) position, easy hours, opportunity for advancement, apply Democratic National Committee, Mayflower Hotel, Washington...
...Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
...some of them were shocked when the Bell-controlled board of eleven directors awarded him 1) a five-year contract at a minimum of $55,000 a year; 2) a $160,000 annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half...
...mainly responsible for Guarujá's face-lifting is dapper, soft-spoken Raymond Fernand Loewy, 54, a French-born engineer who parlayed a stake of 20? into a $3,000,000-a-year business in industrial designing. As one of the top U.S. industrial designers, Loewy's list of clients has grown to impressive lengths, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes...