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...Holman salary: "$100,000-I think. It doesn't make much difference these days. You keep so little...
...Holman would get, after taxes, $37,000, of his $20,000 raise will keep less than...
...coordinate its sprawling empire of 270-odd subsidiaries and affiliates, Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) last week named a new president: big (6 ft., 185 Ibs.), ruddy-faced Eugene Holman, 49, onetime Texas geologist. President Holman replaced Ralph W. Gallagher (TIME, June 5) who moved on up to the company's chairmanship...
...first geologist ever to be a Standard president, Eugene Holman made his most notable claim to the public's attention in April, when he calmly contradicted Oil Boss Harold Ickes' shrill predictions of an oil famine. Said Eugene Holman: If U.S. business has vigor, vision and a cooperative Government, the nation's oil should last for 1,000 years or more...
...rejecting Holman and electing Morse, many Oregonians were convinced that they had rendered a double public service. Holman, big of girth, white of hair, loose of lip, distinguished himself in Congress mainly by his absence from roll-calls (he was absent when Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came...