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Baseball's No. 1 scholar is an authority on phonetics, philology, political philosophy and Romance languages. He is also an inventor (a lens for color photography), businessman (he acquired half-interest in a writing-paper firm by lending a friend his World Series bonus nine years ago) and lawyer (for several winters with the eminent Manhattan firm of Satterlee & Canfield...
Charles Bedaux in 1916 started efficiency engineering where famed Frederick Taylor and the Halsey systems left off. His engineers made their time & motion studies hiding behind pillars with stop watches. They frequently drew up recommendations without consulting even foremen, installed bonus systems which went 75% to the worker, 25% to supervisors as an incentive to push the men. Their standard "B unit," basis of pay, became hated by labor because it was increased as output rose, so that bonuses became harder & harder to earn while basic pay remained unchanged. Says Albert Ramond: ". . . We were far from blameless. We left...
Another munitions-maker, Jack & Heintz, Inc. of Cleveland, also paid a remarkable bonus last week: $650,000 to 800 employes. J. & H., like Beech, is no ordinary plant. Started a year ago by ex-union business agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...
Perhaps the sole action of his life that MacArthur would willingly forget is the Victory of Anacostia Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money...
Curtis Publishing Co. screwed its courage up this month to ask advertisers to pay for some of the bonus circulation they have been getting free: it announced the first increase in Satevepost ad rates since 1926. In the intervening 16 years circulation has gone up from 2,724,876 to 3,348,875, but the black & white page rate had stayed at $8,000. The new rate ($8,500) will be effective next July 4. Curtis also announced the first increase in 14 years for the Ladies' Home Journal. Last month the Journal announced a new peak circulation...