Word: annum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Welch Bill, raising the salaries of 135,000 Federal employes a total of $20,000,000 per annum, the first general Federal pay-rise since 1853, effective July 1. The average annual increase per employe is $148 per annum, or $2.85 per week. President Luther Steward of the Federation of Federal Employes was so pleased that he carried off the pen used to sign the bill and sent it to be framed...
...like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
...Flood Control bill, President Coolidge consigned several other bills to Congressional limbo. A single day brought forth eight vetoes. The rejected measures included: the $3,500,000 bill for roadbuilding in public domains (Indian reservations, national parks, etc.); a 10% pay-raise, totaling some $6,000,000 per annum, for night-working city and railroad postal employes; a bill of extra allowances to fourth-class postmasters for rent, fuel, light, equipment; a bill to promote Captain George R. Armstrong, U. S. A. (retired) to lieutenant-colonel...
...Unanimously passed a bill to give Mrs. Woodrow Wilson a pension of $5,000 per annum; sent it to the House...
...sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...