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...play some role in bringing his voice to the world. Among them was Frank Sinatra, who invited Mario to stay at his house during the furlough. Hedda Hopper and Walter Pidgeon also boosted him, and an RCA Victor agent signed him to a recording contract with a $3,000 bonus. Soon afterward, in January 1945, Mario got a medical discharge (reason: postnasal drip). He returned briefly to Hollywood to marry pretty Betty Hicks, sister of an Army friend, then headed for New York City...
Casting up the accounts for 1950, the Securities & Exchange Commission found that General Motors' President Charles E. ("Engine Charlie") Wilson was the highest-paid citizen on its list, with a $201,300 salary, a cash bonus of $363,795 and $61,205 worth of stock. Total earnings...
Hank Greenberg, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, was close-mouthed about the exact bonus price, but admitted: "It's the highest ever given to any player"-even higher than the $100,000 the Pittsburgh Pirates paid last year for Pitcher Paul Pettit. Cleveland's newest bonus baby (most famous: Pitcher Bob Feller) is 18-year-old Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson, reported by wide-eyed scouts to be more poised and even faster than Feller when he hit the majors...
During World War I ... the president of a giant steal [sic] company voted himself a bonus of about $1,500,000. Thousands of officers of our corporations are today doing the same thing, but so far none has broken that enviable record...
...instead he launched straight into a steamroller campaign for the presidency. His opponents were ineffective; Perón controlled the radio, and his police and bullyboys broke up opposition meetings. At Christmas the government decreed that employers must pay all workers a 13th month's wage as a bonus. In the opinion of most observers, this assured Perón's victory. When election day came, the months of government intimidation abruptly ceased; after such an efficiently unfair campaign, there could be a free-and legal-election. Perón won 55% of the vote, and captured...