Kentucky's Ashland Oil and Refining Company founder and CEO, Paul G. Blazer (1890–1966), served twice as a government salaried dollar-a-year man: from 1933 to 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration on the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry as Chairman of the Blazer Committee and a second time during World War II as Chairman of District II Refining for President Roosevelt's Petroleum Administration of War.The New York Times: "Fuller Explains Refusal of Salary, September 20, 1926 . Retrieved July 24, 2010 During World War II, socialite Doris Duke worked in a canteen for U.S. sailors in Egypt at such a salary.
