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...stranger to big jobs is Admiral Robinson. For the past two years he has been in charge of the Navy's new Bureau of Ships, is rated in naval circles as the real powerhouse of the building program. Looking more like an underpaid bookkeeper than a military man, he appeared some 50 times before Congressional committees, patiently explaining the Navy's needs...
...fact that one of the world's most beloved cinema actors earns less than $50 a week. That miserable retainer not only has to support himself in the extravagant style to which Hollywood is accustomed, but also has to feed, clothe and house his three adopted nephews. This underpaid box-office paragon: Donald Duck...
...Regular Army battalions of engineers, artillerymen, coast artillerymen (antiaircraft) sent over from the continental U.S., plus some 14,000 Puerto Rican recruits who had been taken into expanded Regular Army units, or into two Puerto Rican National Guard regiments. All the Puerto Ricans were volunteers. To miserable, jobless and underpaid natives from San Juan's hellish slums, or from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They would have done a little better if they had had more...
...look at the reaction of government officials, the business world and the mighty press to the action of these underpaid workers. In a boastful reply to Martin Dies, who has accused the F.B.I. of laxity in hunting down "Reds" and "5th, Columnists," Attorney-General Robert Jackson points with pride to the F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies...
...riches-worked eleven days, earned a total of $105.63 in twelve months. By 1939 his working days were more than doubled, his earnings more than tripled, but he was still on a starvation income. Two years ago, the industry belatedly realized the social problem presented by this underpaid army of 15,000 who have been an essential to movie making since the first director photographed the first crowd. At a loss for an answer, the producers met with the Screen Actors Guild, appointed a committee to study the dilemma...