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...steelworkers' Philip Murray could scarcely have been more overbearing. Jubilant over the presidential fact finders' recommendations that steel operators pay their workers up to 10? an hour for an insurance and pension program (TIME, Sept. 19), he wired U.S. Steel's austere President Benjamin Fairless: "Promptly and plainly advise me whether your companies are likewise willing to accept the recommendations of the board as a basis [for] settlement...
...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
...Greenfield thought he could do more-as he had with a dozen other projects. As a real-estate salesman, Russian-born Al Greenfield was selling $60 million worth of property a year by the time he was 26. Later he built Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel, soon had a finger in most local financial pies. He was worth $15 million and dominated Philadelphia's huge Bankers Trust Co. when the 1930 crash wiped...
Having started with the Post Office as a clerk ut 1935, Jesse Donaldson Jr., 38, began catching up with his father, the nation's first career-man Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin. His latest appointment: assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Post Office...
...appears that something like this did happen once upon a time, Author Bonnet's job in The Mudlark was to fluff up the fact into a light historical novel. This, with the help of a lot of imaginary speeches and caperings by the Queen, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, he has done well enough...