Word: hellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles K. Mallett-Constance Heller (Newton...
Last week a more specific plan, stemming in part from the FORTUNE studies, and consisting of 14 carefully integrated recommendations, was ready. Its author: Cleveland's Business Engineer Robert Heller. Its sponsor: the nonprofit, nonpolitical National Planning Association. Its most sensational recommendation: raise Congressmen's salaries from $10,000 a year...
Keen, young (45) Engineer Heller, who showed the U.S. Steel Corp. seven years ago how to modernize its marketing methods, examined every part of the cumbersome Congress mechanism, saw how it worked, and drew his own conclusions. He wrapped up suggestions made in other studies, finally saw his report adopted unanimously by the association's business, labor and agriculture committees. Gist of the recommendations...
...buttress this and other suggestions, NPA pointed out that, in prewar 1940, Congress cost the taxpayers only 1?: out of every $7 spent by the U.S. Government, held that a small extra cost would pay handsome dividends. But Heller insisted that other changes-e.g., reduction of standing committees-should come along with such items as pensions and salary increases. Said Heller: "It appears obvious that Congress is operating with hand tools in a mechanized...
...sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks like the old school is headed for cow-college status...