Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high cost of a political career will go higher if Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas becomes a model for fellow Governors. First Rockefeller decided to donate his modest gubernatorial salary of $10,000 a year toward construction of a chapel at a state hospital. Last week he announced that he would supplement the salaries of a dozen state officials in order to attract qualified personnel. Win estimated the cost of that public service to be between $20,000 and $25,000 annually...
...such cases since Reconstruction, for example, Johnson won a peonage conviction against two Alabama planters who had paid Mississippi jailers to bind Negro prisoners over to them. In 1955 fate intervened with the death of the U.S. judge for Alabama's Middle District. Johnson drew up a modest resume, won the support of state G.O.P. leaders, met Ike in Washington and got the job one week past his 37th birthday...
...economic planner of the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. Within the fortnight following he will pay calls on President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, businessmen and Chinese communities from Cape Kennedy to San Francisco. Remarkably, he seeks no financial handouts of any sort. But, he admits in a modest way, he would indeed be pleased by recognition of the dramatic fact that Taiwan has become a model for Asian economic development...
...consumer goods: the Tatung brand is stamped on pressurized rice cookers, washing machines, fans, radios and, lately, television sets. Tjingling Yen and his wife Vivian, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University, operate two of the fastest-growing companies on Taiwan. From facing desks in a modest Taipei office, Yen's Yue Loong Motor Co. this year will sell 6,000 cars and trucks assembled from parts made in Taiwan or Japan. Mrs. Yen's Tai Yuen Textile Co. turns out 20% of Taiwan's textiles, does a $15 million annual business, mostly overseas...
...best-paid performers in show-biz history (1966 earnings: about $4,000,000); and Priscilla Beaulieu, 21, smashing brunette daughter of a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, whom Elvis started courting in 1959 when he was doing his Army hitch in Germany; both for the first time; in a modest civil ceremony in Las Vegas...