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Last week a more specific plan, stemming in part from the FORTUNE studies, and consisting of 14 carefully integrated recommendations, was ready. Its author: Cleveland's Business Engineer Robert Heller. Its sponsor: the nonprofit, nonpolitical National Planning Association. Its most sensational recommendation: raise Congressmen's salaries from $10,000 a year...
...sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks like the old school is headed for cow-college status...
This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. - Hurley as a $12,000-a-year vice president, Heller as the Army finance officer who had arranged a $2,000,000 Government-guaranteed loan for the financially queasy company, and a loan renewal (TIME, Dec. 4). Heller, who denied knowing Hurley at the time, had a War Department official and an Army colonel testify to his honesty in the deals. Such testimony seemed enough for the Senators...
...many Senators were worried about the nominees' ability. Asked for a statement of his specific duties under the Surplus Property Act, Heller fidgeted, said vaguely that it should be administered so as to get the most possible for the Government without damaging business. Hurley had no clear idea, either...
...Robert A. Taft of Ohio pointed out that Hurley, defeated for reelection in 1942 and this year, was a "lame duck twice rejected by the people of his state." Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg tartly added: "We are dealing with surplus property, not surplus politicians." Democratic confirmation of Hurley and Heller seemed assured...