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...Trust Co. Maurice Stans (Commerce) has been grossing about $250,000 as president of the investment-banking firm of Glore Forgan, William R. Staats, Inc., and as a member of other corporate boards. Nixon Law Partner John Mitchell (Attorney General) has been earning more than $200,000. Winton Blount (Postmaster General) is the nonsalaried president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but his Alabama-based construction company has had contracts this year involving more than $100 million. He says his personal income has been "several times...
...Raise in Salary. Blount, of course, will unload his interest in the family company. So will another millionaire builder, Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts, who will head the Transportation Department. Volpe retained his chairmanship of the John A. Volpe Construction Co. while serving as Governor. He will sell his interest, which he estimates at about $1,000,000, and expects to lose a quarter of that in taxes...
...Secretary of Transportation), Alaska Governor Walter Hickel (Interior), and Chamber of Commerce President Winton Blount (Postmaster General). The best-known figure in the group, Michigan Governor George Romney (Housing and Urban Development), was head of American Motors...
...most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South, and relations with huge agricultural complexes like the California grape companies and their employees. His book, Overcoming World Hunger, could indicate a general concern for problems like these. In the Post Office Winton Blount will probably lend added support to the recent business advisory committee recommendations to turn the Post Office into a public corporation...
THOMAS A. BLOUNT North Carolina State University Raleigh...