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...good old days the payoff was easy. A Congressman could pick the postmasters in his district plus a couple of assistant U.S. attorneys, and some others. A Senator from New York could dictate the filling of about 20,000 federal jobs. "Today," says a U.S. Senator, "I can't keep one county happy. What little patronage there is solves nothing and is a cause of daily bickering and animosity." House Majority Leader Joe Martin had more jobs to dispense when he was minority leader under the Truman Administration than he has today as Republican top boss...
...Fixers. Starting with the incomplete wire service report on Scott Field, Baldwin discovered that several of the contractors had the same reason for refusing to build in the St. Louis area: "We just can't afford the payoff." The payoff was to corrupt A.F.L. building-trades union bosses and business agents. The racketeers, often in league with local subcontractors, concentrated on jobs where there was a fixed completion date, held them up with featherbedding, slowdowns and jurisdictional disputes until the completion deadline got close. Then they made themselves "available" to "fix things up" for the builder-at a price...
...ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives and old flames and hung them all about the house. "I said...
Bill is in three kinds of jam: 1) as an amateur bookmaker out for some ready cash, he has welshed on a ?3,000 daily-double payoff, and the man he owes is hot on his trail; 2) he can only honor the debt by selling his moldering ancestral mansion, Towcester Abbey, to an American millionairess who has qualms about its dampness; 3) his fiancee Jill misinterprets his 2 a.m. exit from the millionairess' room and promptly returns his ring. Trusty Jeeves settles these and a dozen other complications with his customary aplomb. Bill and Jill are put back...
...Payoff. With the help of the jet age, hustling President Bunker has managed to turn moly into a bonanza. When Bunker, who is considered one of the top U.S. authorities on raw materials, took over Climax in 1949, the company owned North America's biggest known supply of the metal, in Colorado, but had few buyers. Bunker, 58, went to Washington to argue that the U.S. was in poor shape for the heat-resistant alloy it needed for jet engines, persuaded the Government to start buying...