Word: furlough
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...Grotkowski had not had too much vodka Saturday night before last he would still be alive, 300 citizens would be uninjured; the Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue would not have been bombed; and members of the Polish Tank Corps might have had their usual furlough last week...
...were talked over again at length last week by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor before it closed its fortnight's session at Atlantic City. Rehashed were the six-hour day, the five-day week, more jobs to be made by Congress, the Government's payless furlough plan. The council flayed both Republican and Democratic platforms for being "vague and extremely disappointing" to Labor but, always nonpartisan, endorsed no nominee for the Presidency...
...Economies of $150,000,000 as a supplement to Budget-balancing. The President had asked for $230,000,000 in cuts. He got his furlough plan instead of straight pay reductions for all Government workers...
...substitution of furloughs saving $58,000,000 for pay cuts saving $118,000,000 loosed a storm of Democratic abuse against President Hoover. South Carolina's Byrnes charged that the President had agreed to go along with the Economy Committee on the pay cut plan but at the last minute his "pride of opinion" caused him to revert to his furlough scheme and to succeed in inducing the Senate to reverse itself and adopt his less economical proposal. 'The bill has been wrecked," cried Senator Byrnes, "and it has been wrecked by the President...
...Senate sent its bill to conference with the House. Last month that body killed the Hoover furlough plan by a two-to-one vote...