Word: moneymen
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...executive board of the United Steelworkers voted to boost the salary of President Philip Murray from $25,000 to $40,000 a year. If the Salary Stabilization Board in Washington approves the 60% increase, Murray will stand No. 4 in labor's list of big moneymen. The top three: George Harrison, of the Railway Clerks, $76,000 a year, John L. Lewis and James C. Petrillo, $50,000 each...
Finances were no problem. As George Brunk explained, "There are plenty of moneymen everywhere we've been who want to see our work go on." Preaching seven times a week, they give their audiences a combination of good hymn singing and long, satisfying sermons ("We do not preach sermonettes"). Said Preacher George, "We preach a fundamental brand of religion, but we aren't fundamentalists. We aren't modernists, either. You don't have to be one or the other...
Washington had not officially offered Syria Point Four help. Why was Premier el-Azem in such a hurry to say no? Answer: French Levantine financiers, allied with Syrian moneymen, want to run the Ghab reclamation project themselves (although there is no evidence that they can do it), because they see in it a first-class opportunity to sell developed land to large landowners at large profits...
...Mellons fought the battle from their bank. The Mellons were never engineers, chemists, inventors, or even builders. They were moneymen. They manipulated the wealth required for the projection of other men's ambitions and dreams. They bought up real estate, financed railroads. They underwrote the development of the miraculous new light and silvery aluminum. With nephew William Larimer, son of Thomas' second son James, Andy and "R.B." financed the gigantic Spindletop gusher in Texas...
Pork & Perfume. Chiang Ching-kuo had little sympathy for the jailed moneymen. After graduating from the Moscow Military Academy in 1930, he went to the Soviet Trans-Caucasus for practical engineering work. Speaking of this period he once said: "I had numberless hard days. I did the lowest sort of work. I have spent a night in a rubbish barrel ... I survived, thanks to father's teaching: 'Man's spirit is omnipotent-not money...