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...itself a porkish pension plan (see p. 16). Said he: If I chose to pay a few dollars a year until I leave the White House, I could retire on a modest pension of $37,500 a year for the rest of my life.* Literal minds promptly raised a howl. Next day, White House Secretary Steve Early had to explain the President's humor: The Boss, he said, had been speaking "facetiously," had no idea at all of asking for a pension. (Or, mumbled some newsmen, of retiring, either...
...president of the Bedaux Co. is no longer Charles E. Bedaux, nor are its policies his. Much water has gone under the bridge since he tried to publicize his system by touring the U.S. with the Duke of Windsor (TIME, Nov. 15, 1937). When a howl from the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. queered the tour and stigmatized the name of Bedaux, Bedaux's lieutenants heaped bitter words on him. He retired, went back to France. Into the presidency moved deep-eyed, handsome Albert Ramond. Said he last week: "We stuck to the sinking ship and we got very...
...East must be successfully carried out. To do this we must adopt a realistic policy that recognizes that our troops may have to be used abroad and that our navy may lose ships in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. What we must cure is the continual rhetorical howl surrounding every defense move that makes it appear a further step on the road to Berlin...
Little Helper. In Jackson Heights, N.Y., a good provider provided: for his infant's crib, a short-wave transmitter; for his wife, a portable receiver. Result: evenings out, subject to a howl from headquarters...
Vigorously besoming away at this wholesale housecleaning, the War Department was aware that it was raising quite a dust, hoped press and politicians would not raise a howl when some local heroes got swept out. Anticipating such squawks, Secretary of War Stimson said last week to the U.S. public...