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...Westinghouse's first automobile starter, built radio generators and dynamotors for the Army and Navy during World War I. In 1919, he joined General Motors as sales manager and chief engineer of Remy Electric Co., a G.M. subsidiary, within nine years was a G.M. vice president. He became right-hand man to G.M. President William S. Knudsen, succeeded him in 1941 after Big Bill went to Washington as top defense expediter. Wilson's salary and bonus in 1951 (before taxes): $566,200. His future salary as Secretary of Defense...
Death Means Nothing. World War II brought a Japanese occupation to Indo-China, but left the (Vichy) French with a few threads of authority. Under the name of Comrade Van, Giap became Ho Chi Minh's right-hand man and organized a Communist underground army of liberation (i.e., liberation from both Japanese and French). In Hanoi, the French threw his wife into jail, with a sentence of 15 years, and there she died. When Giap led his "liberation" troops into the valley of Dinh Ca in 1944, his merciless liquidation of government officials and wealthy farmers gave cruel force...
...time Law School instructor and right-hand man of former United Nations secretary-general Trygve Lie yesterday leaped 12 stories to his death...
What Scholle, Reuther & Co. wanted-and got-was effective control of policymaking jobs. At the outset of his first term Soapy Williams appointed as his press secretary and right-hand man Paul Weber, executive secretary of the Detroit Newspaper Guild. Weber was Gus Scholle's hand-picked recommendation. To this day Weber writes and edits most of Soapy's speeches, and thinks up the gimmicks of Soapy's "Build Michigan" legislative program...
...Young now controls I.D.S.'s $1 billion by the $1,968,000 he put up for the stock at $17 a share. He kept I.D.S.'s President Earl E. Crabb, 69, and its star salesman, Vice President Grady Clark, 50. But he made his own right-hand man, able Lawyer Robert W. Purcell, chairman of I.D.S.'s executive committee, and set him bird-dogging I.D.S.'s investments...