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Died. Smith Wildman Brookhart, 75, chunky, teetotaling, tobacco-shunning, onetime Republican Senator from Iowa, Farm Bloc regular, Soldier Bonus plugger, expert rifleman and early advocate of recognizing Russia; in Prescott, Arizona...
Incitement to Hatred. Hepburn sighted his guns at Premier Drew's most vulnerable spot: his campaign against Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's brand-new, popular "baby bonuses" (TIME, July 3). Drew had trumpeted that the bonus was an invasion of Ontario's rights, proclaimed that Ontario was being taxed to appease French Quebec. Cried Hepburn: ". . . an incitement to hatred against a neighboring province, but, worse than that ... an incitement to hatred against one-third of our own Ontario population" (the French Canadians...
...Descureged and begun to think over how I had ben in the army, what ill success I had met with there . . . and now that I could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began by selling his paper bonus to a speculator for a pittance. Then he pocketed his pride and begged. "I went into Nombers of there shops and would say, your servent gentlefolks, I wish you much Joy with the nuse of peace. . . . Some of them would pity us and would give us some thing, some half...
...biggest thing in the Grumman policy of realism is the incentive wage plan. Started a year ago, it was the first in the aircraft industry. It is also probably the simplest. Time studies of individual operations are eliminated. The incentive pay bonus is paid, not on individual operations, but on the output of the entire plant. Thus on half of all poundage over a fixed rate (.48 pound per worker per hour) everyone in the company, from janitors up to executives mating $8,000 a year, is paid a bonus every three months. Bonus for the last year...
...make a piker out of Alfred Nobel. So it was natural that when M.-G.-M. handed out a prize for a novel Louis Mayer did not stop at a mere $30,000 to $40.000 (the Nobel Prizes vary). He made it a flat $125,000-plus a bonus of up to $50,000 if the book becomes a bestseller...