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...TIME, May 9, 1949), started out by delving into Auditor Hodge's payroll. Right off he found that the list was padded with a Hodge-podge of political bosses, cronies and relatives of the auditor, even included Hodge's personal airplane pilot as a $525-a-month "clerk." Asked why Saline County's Democratic Chairman Harry Erton was on the auditor's payroll at $600 a month, Republican Orville Hodge blandly explained: "I'm interested in getting votes...
Last year, the Cook County Democratic machine decided to drop Morris' patron and chief protector, Reform Mayor Martin Kennelly, in favor of County Clerk Richard J. Daley (a key Illinois tactician for Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson). During the campaign, Morris was tripped up as he tried to bug the hotel room of a suspect who had powerful connections with the county committee. Word got to Candidate Daley that Scotland Yard was working against him. Observed the Daily News: "Predictions were made . . . that the election of Mayor Daley would mean the disbanding of Scotland Yard...
David was burning with enterprise when he left Holy Cross in 1918 and got his first job as a clerk in the Jones & Laughlin polishing mill. The work paid 22? an hour; he soon found another job where the hourly rate was 36?. When an opportunity arose to become a machinist's helper at the mill, he took it. Then in 1922 he returned to white-collar work as typist-switchboard operator at $80 a month for Wheeling Steel Products Co. Three nights a week, for three hours a night, he went to Duquesne University to study accounting...
...last week on the last leg of his seven-week swing through Europe (TIME, May 28 et seq.). After the first press conference (where he backed President Eisenhower by saying that American prestige abroad was "never higher"), he was astonished when 200 newsmen applauded him. Even a clothing-store clerk was captivated when Harry sauntered in to purchase a dress tie, lingered to demonstrate his Kansas City haberdasher's technique for selling four-in-hands...
Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...