Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directors of Republic Steel Corp. decided to give rough-&-tumble Board Chairman Tom Girdler a $51,000 boost over his regular $175,000 salary. At first they gave it to him in the form of an annuity, which they thought was exempt from taxes. But when the Board of Tax Appeals ruled that the sum was not exempt, Tom Girdler surrendered the annuity for cash...
...handy was George that other big companies put him on their boards. Among them: Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp. and Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, General Aniline and Film Corp. George knew the men who ran the country. George was a fixer and a puller of wires. That was what George got paid for. Keeping a gruelling schedule, he seldom got home to his Wardman Park apartment and his pretty, pert wife...
...Allen in Cleveland. After everyone had talked and run up a sizable bill, it turned out that George Allen would not have to pay the charges after all. The call had come in and been charged while he was visiting the home of violently anti-New Deal Steelman Tom Girdler...
...bawled that the steel industry had ganged up to keep Kaiser-Frazer Corp. from making autos by refusing to sell it any steel. He asked Attorney General Thomas C. Clark to end "discrimination" against K-F. His partner Joe Frazer talked darkly that Republic Steel's Tom Girdler had said Kaiser's quick signing of labor contracts was "one reason why you are not getting any steel." Tom Girdler snorted: nonsense...
...double-breasted blue suit and zebra-striped tie, George waved to those he knew, graciously passed around a typed list of all his business connections, and sat down. He was on the board of Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...