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Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself...
...annual addition to the payroll that shorter hours would entail. In place of the present contract the company suggests the P. 0. take over the system, pay it rent, "considerably less than $10,000 a mile." Last week's deadline, when the company threatened to quit, came and passed. The P. 0., which has the company under contract for another six months, is confident that it can make a better deal, sat tight, said "the tubes are operating as usual, according to contract...
...salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost so much money it was forced to quit at the end of the 1915 season. Connie Mack had come on evil days, too. For seven years (1915-21) his Athletics finished last in the American League, while he squinted shrewd eyes at 1,000 young men to find the right combination for another winning team...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...response to notice from shapely, 23-year-old Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour, wife of an orchestra leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism...