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...refusal to obey the law," fined it $400 (plus costs), ordered it to pay Colonel Johnson $12,158 (twelve weeks' salary and bonus). But Johnson did not get his job back. For Marathon, which had made no bones about its penny-pinching objective, this was cheap. Said jobless Colonel Johnson of the court's award: "With Christmas so close, it's very nice...
That the GI bill was intended to be a freely given bonus is evident from its extensive provisions, which offer aid to almost every veteran--student, home builder, business man, or jobless. The only class that is slighted is the married student with children, who receives the same ninety dollars per month as the married student with no one but his wife to support. A logical case can be advanced for the justness of upping the allotment of GI scholars with children, and in fairness to this group, which was ignored in the original GI bill, such an adjustment should...
...Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
Many of the top Mitsuis, though not exactly starving, were already jobless. They had returned, full circle, to the aristocratic idleness of the time before old Sokubei, the brewer. The most sadness, however, was expressed by one of the Mitsui "clerks" (actually a top executive), a grey, frail little man named Tatsuo Sumi, who is said to be descended from a 17th Century Mitsui clerk or banto. Tatsuo talked like an aging English butler whose lord & lady had come on evil times. "I have given my life to Mitsui," he said; "there is nothing more to do. . . . A glorious history...