Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least six Democrats of the 82 new House members listed their wives on the payroll. Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
...long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes the latter approach...
...Patriotic," "kindly," "gentle," "sweet" and "generous" are the words that his family and friends use. His children know that he can be tender, for we have seen him rock each of his twelve grandchildren in turn, singing their favorite song, Frog Went a-Courtin'. Won't that surprise some of his colleagues on the Hill, who think he eats cactus for breakfast...
Once this would have been resented by powerful A. T. & T., which for decades battled fiercely with the independents. But now there is peace. A. T. & T. has agreed not to raid the independents, makes generous revenue splits with them on interchanges of calls ($190 million in 1958). Fearful of Government antitrust suits (it narrowly squeezed out of a 1949 suit), A. T. & T. is only too happy to have the independents around as proof that it is far from a nationwide monopoly...
...Sprague keynoted the reports at a symposium of several doctors. The theme developed was that new and better surgical and medical treatment and diagnostic methods as well as advances towards prevention can be expected, provided continuous and generous support is given for heart research...