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...Pearl Harbor time, Davis had 12,500,000 listeners to his five-minute news summary and a $53,000-a-year contract. His studio estimated that half of all U.S. families heard him at least once a week. When Franklin Roosevelt tied all his muddling, uncoordinated news and propaganda agencies into a single loose package last summer, Elmer Davis was the only boss that no one could have objected...
...moved into the Army's mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head of the United Nations news bureau. "That's interesting...
Friends say he passed up a $100,000-a-year offer from a New York law firm to accept Franklin Roosevelt's $12,500 court appointment. Washington's thinning band of original New Dealers, in which Thurman Arnold was a whimsical free lancer, shuddered to think of him in a black gown. Philosophized Arnold: "I guess I'm like the Marx brothers-they can be awfully funny for a long while, but finally people get tired of them. A lot of the bureaucrats are not only tired of me but also awfully sore...
...stake was not only a Senator's vengeance but an $8,000-a-year salary (plus two cars and a chauffeur), one of the Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement...
...presume to answer the central question around which all the wrangles over U.S. patent reform have revolved: how to encourage invention and competition at the same time (TIME, April 27). But it may well turn out that, with one stroke, Businessman Crowley (who is still the $50,000-a-year boss of Standard Gas & Electric) accomplished far more patent reform than Professor-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold with all his fulminations about how the U.S. patent system encouraged the Nazis to "strangle" the U.S. war effort. Practical experience with taking the monopoly out of foreign patents during the war should give...