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...point: 1) that Goldberg had sold DPC surpluses at knock-down prices, but had later, and privately, tapped purchasers for an additional 20%; 2) that he had favored certain buyers by use of signals rather than voice bids; 3) that he had offered a DPC official a $20,000-a-year job to promote Goldberg good will within...
...York, there was some ripe political speculation. Handsome, strapping Brigadier General William O'Dwyer, late of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, returned to his $20,000-a-year job as Brooklyn's District Attorney. Bill O'Dwyer promptly squelched a rumor that he had returned to civvies to run as Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York next fall against Fusionist "Butch" LaGuardia...
When Judge Sullivan read his 18-page opinion, Montgomery Ward's $100,000-a-year chairman, stubborn Sewell Lee Avery, was absent from the courtroom. At the lush San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, Ariz., where he was resting, Avery called it "a great day for labor...
...pruning had to be done. Hearst's imperious orders to his papers ("The Chief says") were sometimes set aside by General Manager Joseph Vincent Connolly. Trustee Clarence J. Shearn, a dry little Manhattan lawyer with complete control of Hearst finances, restricted the Chief to a paltry $100,000-a-year salary. To save what was left, Shearn sold, consolidated or killed papers, and started selling off big chunks of Hearst's enormous collection of artistic junk (bought for $35 million, worth perhaps $15 million...
...autumn there were enough cash and promises to guarantee a $200,000-a-year, five-year trial. The school opened with only 25 students (most sponsors could not spare any men). But already students, teachers and sponsors feel confident of success...