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...approved a fee of $32,000 for SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank for 3,830 hr. and 45 min. work done as counsel to a trustee in the Missouri Pacific R. R. reorganization between 1935 and 1937. During his MOP service, Frank also counseled Government agencies. Now working full time for SEC at $10,000 a year, he says Government salaries should not be commensurate with private fees because Government jobs bring "inner satisfaction," outer prestige...
First to break the tape was Boston's 119-lb. Francis Darrah, a seasoned distance runner at 25, whose time of 2 hr., 8 min., 14.6 sec. was the fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman...
...certain wages for work not in excess of 1,000 hours over a period of 26 consecutive weeks, or guaranteeing an annual wage, where reasonable work weeks might be arranged within a yearly limit of 2,000 work hours; 2) seasonal industries whose employes might work up to 56 hr. per week: 3) agricultural workers and handlers of perishable foods...
...Nuys, Calif.: the annual 500-mile Memorial Day automobile race; his first major victory in 22 years of racing; driving the entire distance without relief and stopping only once (for 30 seconds); finishing five miles ahead of second-place Wilbur Shaw, last year's winner; in 4 hr., 15 min., 58.40 sec., for an average of 117.200 m.p.h., which broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after...
Disappointed that it was too late for her signature to be added to the list, Mrs. Jenckes took the next plane for Indiana. Meanwhile, in a seething, shouting mob of Congressmen, Aunt Mary Norton accepted congratulations on setting a new House record (2 hr. 22 min.) for committee discharge petitions and on the No. 1 achievement of her political career...