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...Then the years in Washington. Postmaster General and Democratic Chairman James A. Farley went deep into debt (on his $15,000-a-year salary), took many a rap while working as hard and loyally as ever for "The Boss." But also, in the politician's simple conviction that The Party is everything, he worked for the Democratic Party. Lately he had also worked for himself, on the thrilling but consistent premise that perhaps he might be his Party's next instrument in the White House...
This week to Washington went Princetonman James Vincent Forrestal, after turning in his resignation as president of the top-flight Wall Street investment house of Dillon, Read & Co. His new job: No. 4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity." In the reforming New Deal of 1939, Wall Streeter Forrestal's appointment would have set alienists to wondering. In the war-defense New Deal of 1940's summer it got only passing notice. For against the possibility of war, Franklin Roosevelt's draft on business was already...
...committee found undertones of monopoly all through the $165,000,000-a-year (1938) broadcasting industry. Whacking NBC and CBS around without gloves, FCC-men charged them with "many arbitrary and inequitable practices." Grimly they pointed...
Every morning at 8, Mr. Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned...
...ideas of a slow-spoken, quick-thinking Texas music teacher named Irl Allison, who started the whole thing on a shoestring in 1929. Touring the land to sign up piano teachers for the Guild, Mr. Allison was once down to his last 7?. Today 2,000 members pay $3-a-year dues to the Guild, and Mr. Allison is permanent president. Guild members get their names in an annual directory, their pupils in the Auditions, which this year brought in some $15,000 in entrance fees, cost $4,000 in judges' pay ($10 a day) and railroad fare...