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Through a side door of the White House last week slipped three of Big Steel's big men for a conference with John Steelman, the President's right-hand man on labor and mobilization. For three hours the steelmen, headed by U.S. Steel's Vice Chairman Roger Blough, discussed steel prices. There was no announcement of what went on, but the gossip was that the trip was well worthwhile. Over the objections of other administration aides, Steelman was reportedly ready to grant a $5.20-a-ton price increase. This was $1.50 more than the steel companies were...
...staff went into the service and left the company in the hands of Carmine McNeill, secretary-treasurer and only employee. At war's end, Jarrell gathered around him a hustling staff of young ex-servicemen to cash in on the booming credit business: Arthur Cade, Jarrell's right-hand man, is 32; two other vice presidents...
...were not for outgoing President Aleman, Ruiz Cortines might still be preparing statistical reports. Thirteen years ago, Aleman took Cortines on as an aide and factotum. As Aleman moved up- from the governorship of Veracruz to the Ministry of the Interior and to the presidential palace-his right-hand man moved right behind him. Will Ruiz Cortines be strong enough to go his own honest way now? His friends think so. He will continue Mexico's program of strenuous industrial expansion, they say, but with more orderly planning, "more austerity, more social justice, a more equitable distribution of wealth...
Until last week, few people outside U.S. Steel Corp. had ever heard of Roger M. Blough. Though he has been Big Steel's legal eagle, a vice president, and President Benjamin Fairless' right-hand for years, Blough had a passion for anonymity. But last week, as Chairman Irving Olds retired at 65 and President Fairless took on his job as well, Blough (rhymes with plow) emerged as the heir apparent to what has traditionally been Big Steel's biggest job. He took over the long-vacant vice-chairmanship of the company...
...finally broke free from France (as did Lebanon) in 1946. Democracy hardly had a chance to get started there; land-grabbing rich and ambitious politicians quickly brought chaos to the promising land. Shishekly's first step in December was to jail all rival top politicians and install his right-hand man, Colonel Fawzi Selo, in all their places. Two months later he issued the first of a blizzardlike series of nearly 200 government decrees which turned Syria virtually inside...