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...decided to leave the Government and make some money. He turned down a $75,000-a-year Hays office job, went to work as an engineering consultant. When the President telephoned him last week he unhesitatingly answered "Yes," set up shop in Washington's Mayflower Hotel and immediately tackled a huge stack of Government reports...
...Appointed Randolph Paul, ex-Treasury tax expert, to be $10,000-a-year presidential assistant; named Major General John H. Hilldring, regular Army director of Civil Affairs, to be an Assistant Secretary of State; Delaware attorney Josiah Marvel Jr. to be Minister to Denmark...
...hospital units were still separate entities. In 1938 a medical economist named Clarence Rufus Rorem, using the remnants of a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant, made a survey of the scattered hospitalization plans, sold them on forming a national organization. Rorem is now the $15,000-a-year national director...
...three Councilmen who make up the housing subcommittee failed to agree on which of the University's proposals they considered more attractive. Michael J. Neville, chairman of the group, remained superficially impartial, but kept bringing the discussion back to the $1-a-year plan...
Like Omar, slick William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers. By changing the requirements on the eve of exams, Johnson ensured passing grades for his students. (Of 155 successful candidates for jobs as principals, 122 were Johnson pupils...