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...free, and several thousand are made a day. All outside calls cost $.05 apiece, and of these there are approximately 1000 daily. The Central switchboard is connected by trunk lines to the new Biological Building, the H. A. A. and the business School and it is necessary to employ four operators to take care of this system...
Senator Long: The reason why I have not received any fees since I came to the Senate is that, with my limited time, I have not been able to get a client who had little enough intellect to employ me. I have tried, however. ... I do not recall that I ever took many lawsuits for corporations in my life. Certainly none against a poor man. I am on the other side. I sue the railroads. I sue the corporations. I sometimes defend people charged with crime. I had a pretty good practice representing employes under the Federal Employes' Liability...
Each layer last week had to employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing each member to employ an extra clerk for the remainder of the present session-the clerk's pay to come out of the Senate's contingent fund...
Neither would any contract be awarded to any company, "reorganized" or not, which had in its employ any of the 32 officials named by Mr. Farley as having attended Walter Folger Brown's "spoils" conference...