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...36th wedding anniversary, shook hands with a man who had also been present at the wedding: James Sloan, red-faced Irishman who was in charge of White House Secret Service agents in 1905 (President Theodore Roosevelt gave away his niece Eleanor) and who is still on duty daily at the entrance to the White House executive offices...
...second wife (Dorothy Comingore), whom he tried to make a singer, finally established in the castle. There she passed the years assembling jigsaw puzzles until she walked out in boredom. Then there is Kane's rich guardian (George Coulouris) whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom Kane broke after Kane's disastrous try for the Governorship of New York; Kane's butler (Paul Stewart). None knew the meaning of "rosebud." But each...
...AMERICAN CAUSE - Archibald MacLeish-Duell, Sloan and Pearce...
...give his answer to a question topmost in the mind of many a U. S. businessman: Is war socializing British industry? In his ten days in England, Willkie had talked with hundreds of businessmen-from a dart-playing bricklayer named Albert Phillips to William Edward Rootes, "the British Alfred Sloan," President of The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders. He had visited 50 factories (in London. Coventry. Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Sheffield, Nottingham, etc.). From the evidence so gathered, ex-Businessman Willkie said...
Colonel Fleming countered Mr. Sloan's argument that paying overtime was a step towards inflation, by pointing to General Motors' last annual statement, which showed a total pay roll of $386,000,000, profits of $183,000,000. Said the colonel: "For every dollar paid out in wages and salaries almost 50% was realized in profits. ... I wonder if that old inflation bugaboo looks in the window at businessmen when they are confronted with profits -and scares them just as he does when they are confronted with wage increases. I called it a bugaboo because inflation does...