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...York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...horses. But the great mess of the NDAC was being cleared up, as by a giant vacuum cleaner. The stink of it had apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott (consumers), Chester C. Davis (agriculture), and Leon Henderson (prices). Henderson, a pigeon who hates holes, and who somehow had gotten...
...Washington, $1-a-year men set a stiff pace for Government men: William Clayton put in 60 hours, W. Averell Harriman, John Biggers and Bill Knudsen around 80 hours in a six-day week. RFC's lights burned nightly...
...shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead. All White House reporters were on the train a quarter-mile away. Henry ran the quarter-mile, gave them a thorough fillin, saved their jobs to a man. Kannee last week resigned his $6,000-a-year position to get "considerably more" as assistant to Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. of Remington Rand...
Last fall the State Department, finding Ecuador unwilling to follow Colombian example, replied to Sedta in kind. Dangling a reported $180,000-a-year post-office subsidy, it hooked reluctant Pan American-Grace Airways into setting up a rival service...