Word: toland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England's Ben Toland, 24, his parents gave a good physique, a good education, a conscience and part of a modest estate (some...
Headed for Iwo Jima and all that he knew it would mean, Marine Lieut. Toland sent a solemn charge home: "Take care of and nurture what we're fighting for!" Then he scribbled a will...
...midst of angry labor debate last week, New Hampshire's Congressman Sherman Adams read the terms of the will to his colleagues. To the cause of labor-management peace, Ben Toland bequeathed 40% of his estate (10% each to the C.I.O. and A.F. of L.; 20% to the National Association of Manufacturers). To the Congress, for research toward a "farsighted foreign policy," and better government for "all the people in the country instead of merely the organized pressure groups," 20%. To St. Paul's and Yale, 20% and 10%. To the New York Times annual Christmas charity fund...
...TOLAND Concord...
...wildest dreams. When they heckled him, he said "I don't blame you. In 1933, if you had told me that I would be paying bonuses of 100% of the salaries and still reducing the costs, I wouldn't have believed you either." To committee counsel Edmund Toland's contention that these bonuses (plus a $1,000,000 trust fund established to retire extra wartime workers) had milked the Government out of over $4,000,000 in taxes from 1939-41, he retorted with a fancy statistic. Had his incentive pay not developed new manufacturing short cuts...