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Did anyone want a job that paid $30,000 a year, tax free? Last week the World Bank was still shopping around for someone to take the place of retiring President Eugene Meyer. The job was offered to Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada. He turned it down...
By the time the nation was at war he was executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, New York. Most notable prosecutions: the first U.S. wartime sedition case (the "Black Hitler" case) in which five were sent to prison; the first wartime spy case-a New York City ring...
Last week Congressmen heard that Navy Secretary Forrestal was willing to give in even on this question, dear as it was to Navymen's hearts. Thus encouraged, G.O.P. steersmen were getting ready to put merger up to the 80th Congress: it would provide some of the budget economies they...
Stuart Symington, the United States' Under-Secretary of War for Air, may have acted premature in his revelation of Army Air Force plans to send a squadron of B-29 Superfortresses on a globe-girdling demonstration of United States air might. The route and date of the flight, as well...
Navy-James Forrestal, only F.D.R. holdover left (and a good one).