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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan, the White House court jester, made a terse, four-point reply: 1) he knew Hunt only casually, considered him a mere "file clerk who makes maybe $10,000 a year" (Vaughan's base pay as a major general: $8,800); 2) he knew there were "at least 300 people in Washington" in the same racket, selling their knowledge of Washington ways to businessmen who want government contracts; 3) he couldn't understand why people would "pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt, who was a wartime colonel] when at least two major generals...
...Navy pulled out of Shanghai so hastily last April that it failed to give its 800 Chinese civilian employees proper two weeks' notice. Last week, demanding full pay for the past two months (during which they did not work), workers surrounded the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, refused to let anyone leave...
...opposition from Spain's rank-proud Committee of Grandees. Last week, however, the government defied the grandees and published a list of 97 out of 400 available Spanish-American titles. They were available, that is, for a price. Claimants whose proofs of lineage were accepted would have to pay up back succession taxes and service charges ranging from 140,000 pesetas ($12,785) for dukes down to a mere 60,000 ($5,479) for barons...
...Moore's inauguration, Bunnell sounded an old alarm. The impoverished Territorial Legislature had given its university next to nothing for two years, and the regents have had to borrow $225,000 so far to pay off fuel bills and salaries. To Terris Moore, Charles Bunnell made a pledge: "We will not permit the university to close, if we have to go to the people who believe in Alaska and borrow our needs in ten and twenty dollar bills...
Last May, ill and bedridden at 71, Warren calmly dictated a column to his wife: "I have cancer and I am going to die of it." Warren told his readers that he had already arranged for his funeral, but hoped that they would pay their respects while he was still alive-by contributing to cancer research. In nickels, dimes and dollars, $32,000 poured...