Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remembering how Cub Reporter Benito Mussolini once lived in fear of being fired by a capricious editor, the Dictator with his 1927 Charter of Labor protected the status of all Italian employes with a nationwide, mandatory system of labor contracts and gave extra protection to working journalists...
Today the editor who "dismisses for no fault" one of his staff in Italy faces a suit which Italian courts usually decide by awarding the ousted staffman damages amounting to half his yearly salary, plus an extra month's pay for every year of his service before he was "fired." On the basis of this law, Correspondent Thomas B. ("Tom") Morgan was considered by his Rome colleagues last week to have excellent chances of collecting from United Press half a year's salary, plus one month's salary for each of the twelve years he has served...
Notre Dame took the ball again on its own 20-yd. line. Four passes, the last from Pilney to Layden, brought a touchdown. With a minute and a half to play, the crowd held its breath while Fromhart dropped back to try for the extra point that might tie the score. He failed...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
This is the fifteenth in a series of articles on extra-curricular activities. These articles are intended to supplement the information received by the Class of 1939 at the Phillips Brooks House reception...