Word: employees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie's Empty House. Charlie was born in Milwaukee, became an elevator boy at the Republican House when he was 13, rarely left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite...
A Government employe finally won a raise from $2,300 to $2,400 a year, celebrated, then discovered she had been duped by a mirage. The raise put her in a higher withholding-tax bracket, added $96 a year in tax deductions, $5 a year to her retirement-fund payments...
What Is News? The publisher and his new employe have one thing in common: they think the New Deal is a mess. Gannett says he wants this mess intimately interpreted. That is fine with Dickson, who has covered Washington news for 16 years, has little sympathy with the way press...
On the contrary, there was Dennetts. Dennetts originated the dairy lunch with the legend "Surpassing Coffe e" in white script on the windows, the marble-topped tables that could be swabbed off with a damp cloth, sweeping the crumbs into the customers' laps. Dennett also had his quirks and...
>The great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked...