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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph-record firm. Said he last week to 1,300 fellow cloak-&-suiters dining at the Waldorf-Astoria: "I am not a candidate for mayor...
...enterprises pay no income tax. Neither does The Voice, whose snappy double-breasted suits, flowing ties, and manicures are listed as "legitimate church expenses." Now California unions are fighting him tooth & nail. Last month they claimed a victory when the War Labor Board ordered him to continue a union contract at San Francisco's Hotel Cecil. But The Voice had already dodged out of range by selling the establishment (at a neat $60,000 profit) a month before. Undeterred, the unions last week were pressing cases against other church hotels in which salaried workers have been replaced by Bell...
...Europe ended, 72,000 of John Lewis' United Mine Workers were on strike in the hard-coal fields. The Government had taken over the mines; the flag fluttered over the mineheads of 363 anthracite companies while John Lewis and the operators haggled over a new contract...
...union's president, mild-mannered little Robert H. Keys, who had been a foreman himself (Ford), was quick to crack back. Bob Keys talked of "strikes along legal channels" to whip Packard into contract-signing...
...rejuvenate"the creaking U.S. Merchant Marine, Ingalls saw his chance to get into shipbuilding with a splash. In 1939 he formed the subsidiary Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., and spent some $500,000 for a yard at Pascagoula. It was a good investment. He landed a $10 million contract for four C-3 type freighters. The first of the batch, the Exchequer for the American Export Lines, was the largest all-welded merchant ship ever built in the U.S. When war came Pascagoula got all the business it could handle...