Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his $100 bet, David Jones collected a $5,000 reward from Secretary Magsaysay. But despite his. triumphs, Jones had no intention of making espionage his career. "I'm no cloak & dagger man," he said. "I'm going back home and stick to radio...
...plan, Republic lost three top men to other companies which offered fat extra-salary benefits; even President Charles M. White had been approached. But Lawyer Arthur Dean of Manhattan's top-drawer firm of Sullivan & Cromwell probed right to the heart of the matter. Unless companies can reward their executives by such devices as stock options, said Dean, they will slip away in increasing numbers to enter business for themselves. In many a U.S. community, hardworking dealers who own their own businesses are making more real income than the heads of companies whose products they sell...
Harry Truman's 1948 attempt to punish Mississippi Dixiecrats, and reward the boys who didn't walk out on him, came to a sorry little anticlimax last week in Jackson, Miss. A federal grand jury indicted twelve politicos, including the leaders of Mississippi's pro-Truman State Democratic Committee, for peddling Federal patronage jobs to the highest bidder (TIME, April 23). Among those indicted: Clarence E. Hood Jr., former acting Democratic National Committeeman; Frank Mize, chairman of the pro-Truman committee and brother of a federal judge. The crimes alleged are both petty and sleazy. The committee...
From Tent io Palace. In 1921, as a reward for the Hashemites' services, Britain's Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...
Wirepulling. In Hong Kong, the Great Northern Telegraph Co. offered an $800 reward for information on thieves who had stolen 3.36 miles of its cable from the bottom of the China...