Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters on the spot agree that there are 40,000 Italian soldiers on Spanish soil, 20,000 Germans. Thousands of Italian troops unappreciative of the political differences which have set Spanish brothers at one another's throats, have genuinely volunteered for Spanish service for the sake of a bonus dangled before them by Dictator Mussolini, of from 1,000 to 3,000 lire ($53 to $159). Other Italian soldiers have simply been notified that volunteers are wanted. Colonels reportedly say to their battalions: "All men not prepared to volunteer fall out of the ranks." In still other cases Italians...
...neighbor of President Roosevelt in Dutchess County, a believer in "government by cooperation," father of two young women. Professor Fite wants every woman in New York State, rich or poor, married or not, to receive $75 for the birth of a child provided that: 1) she registers for the bonus before the fourth month of her pregnancy, 2) submits to pre-natal care, 3) pays all the bonus to doctor, nurse and hospital...
Lanky, agreeable, fond of talking about himself, Reporter Rogers was well paid, drew many a big bonus for big stories. Once an unknown benefactor deposited $1,000 in the Rogers checking account. At Christmas his mailbox so overflowed with cards and gifts that once he remarked: "The whores and hoodlums always remember...
...floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months in a hospital, was retired by the Italian Boxing Federation with a 40,000-lire bonus...
...would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does not mind. As a bonus with the first color picture produced in England, Producer Robert T. Kane has tossed in some songs by John McCormack, given famed Derby Jockey Steve Donoghue, six times winner of the Epsom Derby (1915-17-21-22-23-25), the leg-up on. Wings...