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...Passed and sent to the White House a $53 million legislative supply bill, including $2,500-a-year allowances for Senators (which House members already have...
Harold Dewey Smith, for seven years the hardworking, $10,000-a-year Director of the U.S. Budget, who had kept tabs on $400,000,000,000 of Government spending, resolved to do something about his own financial dilemma...
Last week something got done about it in a hurry. A plum dropped in his lap - the $22,500-a-year tax-freer vice-presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Regretfully, President Truman accepted Harold Smith's resignation, wrote him a glowing farewell : "Besides great ability, you brought to the work fidelity, integrity and loyalty...
...Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income: $125,000. She now tops all popular girl singers but velvet-voiced, $250,000-a-year Dinah Shore...
...World Bank. The $30,000-a-year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...