Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President would not even listen to such a proposal. A general 11 % cut in Federal salaries was favored by the Congressmen. Mr. Hoover countered with a proposition to cut the salaries of the President ($75,000 per year), Cabinet members ($15,000), Senators and Representatives ($10,000) but to furlough other employes without pay and reduce their vacation and sick leave from 30 days to two weeks. Thus the bargaining progressed back & forth, with little discord and no politics. When the meeting ended the House Economy Committee had tentatively agreed to consider a list of changes which, if enacted, were...
...achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique to fight in the defense of Paris, unsuccessfully. With soldiering in his blood, he went to the Far East, assisted at the French occupation of Formosa in 1885. Eight years later he performed the feat described in his book My March on Timbuktu. Starting down...
...first and third, move to camp the first of June, the official period does not start until after Graduation. When the last June Week parade is over and Recognition is a vivid memory, when another class has donned the "Army Blue" and the second class has departed on Furlough, the remainder of the Corps settles down to "make" summer camp...
...clock in the morning the white gloved hand of the cadet officer of the day goes up, and the insistent roll of a drum shatters the beauty of "Army Blue". The next day the Corps moves back to barracks, camp is dismantled, the "cows" come home from furlough, and the stage is set for another long battle with the Academic Department...
...Ambassador was about to sail for a furlough in the U. S. Cambridge University had just made him an honorary Doctor of Laws and in the distinguished audience sat prim John Galsworthy, elfin Sir James Matthew Barrie, beefy Lords Beauchamp and Bridgeman, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson? honorary degree...