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...Secretary Snyder announced that Vice President Nixon, members of the President's family, and most of the Cabinet had telephoned Denver, and that no one planned to come to Denver. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks recalled that he himself had recovered from a heart attack a dozen years...
...serve in the Government without pay. Trustbuster Stanley Barnes is not satisfied with the compromise worked out last summer, whereby a businessman can run a key division but make no policy decisions (TIME, July 18) ; Barnes will attack the idea, especially in the Commerce Department, recommend that Secretary Sinclair Weeks either use businessmen strictly as advisers or replace them with salaried division chiefs...
...SINCLAIR LEWIS, that old village atheist, ironically professed to see American skyscrapers as cathedrals; the commercial towers of Babbitt's home town "aspired above the morning mists." In the booming cities of the '50s, it is not only skyscrapers that are rising from the ground. The U.S. is witnessing the greatest church-building boom in its history...
PROXY FIGHT RULES will be tightened if the Securities and Exchange Commission can persuade Congress to give it a stronger hand as referee. SEChairman J. Sinclair Armstrong will ask for authority to require all proxy solicitors to 1) identify themselves and their backers, 2) refrain from making character attacks on opponents or predictions about earnings and dividends. SEC also wants more power to censor proxy letters, newspaper ads, press handouts, etc., before release...
Long before Capitol Hill's noisiest business baiters got worked up about the WOCs* (TIME. July 18 et seq.), Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was working out a code of conduct to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between Government duties and private interests. Last week Secretary Weeks handed down his six-page code, warned his 45,700 employees that failure to observe it could cost them their jobs. Under his new rules, Commerce employees...