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...bank longer than any other employee, starting as a messenger boy in 1906. He was made vice president in 1931, executive vice president in 1940, and from 1944 on also supervised the bank's major loans (e.g., to Henry Kaiser, Israel, etc.). Given the chairmanship as an honorarium, he will retire on his 6 5th birthday next May. ¶ Carleton Putnam, 52, announced that he would step down as board chairman of Atlanta's Delta Air Lines, Inc. this week. A well-to-do Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying...
...going to double your twenty dollar honorarium," he informed the Harvard team. "We want you to come back every year...
...Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped on a gag rule that would make any speaker worth his salt or his honorarium steer clear of the Ohio campus...
...helped frame the constitution. In explanation, he says: "I wanted to prevent a dictatorial government which would give the Japanese even greater power." Roxas thinks that he was the only member of the commission who never cashed the 10,000-peso check which the Japs sent as an honorarium. (He says the check was burned with other papers when his house was destroyed in the battle for Manila.) He was appointed to the cabinet of puppet President Jose Laurel, but did not attend its meetings. U.S. officers who stayed behind during the occupation give Manuel Roxas the highest rating. Said...
...American Midas who has struggled rigorously to keep the money from rolling in is Thomas John Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. He was No. 2 on the 1939 list of the top ten salaries ($442,560). Of this honorarium, $100,000 was salary. Most of the rest was extra compensation, in lieu of royalties, on his patents. After a $6 dividend to stockholders, Tycoon Watson took 5% of net earnings...