Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darby, who had also been profiting from school contracts. As chairman of the board's purchasing and distribution committee, he was able to swing a $68,000 school contract to the Jack & Jill Ice Cream Co., which occupied a store he happened to own. And as a reward for his efforts, he was thus able to charge Jack & Jill an exorbitant rent. Last week a superior court jury convicted Darby of a felony for having a "prohibitive interest" in the contract-a clear violation of the state law governing the conduct of public officials...
...Senator Burnet R. Maybank, whose Senate-House "watchdog" committee launched an immediate inquiry: "I am not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry." Added South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes: "It's nothing but a subsidy to reward the imprudent manager...
...past . . . His explorations have led him to stylistic exercises which at first sight disturb, or even horrify, but which, on analysis, reveal elements derived from remote antiquity or the art-forms of primitive peoples . . . [His] ceaseless industry . . . may seem to some capricious and rootless, but it undoubtedly deserves its reward in the greatest snob-following of our time...
John was ready to suggest another reward. Considering Picasso's reputation with British artists and critics, "would it not be a gracious and timely gesture on the part of the Royal Academy if, with the consent of the Sovereign Señor Picasso were invited to accept Honorary Membership of that historic body...
Last week Watson-Watt, now "Sir Robert," already knighted as one of the architects of victory in the Battle of Britain, got another reward: ?50,000 ($140,000), tax free, from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. Other British contributors to the development of radar shared ?37,950. British scientists agreed that the decision was a fair one. It had been reached after long deliberation by a seven-man commission of lawyers, scientists and businessmen, presided over by Lord Justice Cohen, Lord of Appeal...