Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years old before its Representatives dared to vote themselves money for clerk hire. Not until 1898 did they allow their office helpers a full year's pay ($1,200). Now each may have two secretaries on the Government payroll at no more than $3,900 for one, $5,000 for the pair. Each Senator is entitled to five...
...personal services, information, political nose-wiping of every sort burden the laziest members of the House, multiply the burdens of Congressmen who try to do more than run errands. Facts not denied: 1) many a Congressional relative does roost on the House payroll, even though he or she may have to work for the privilege while Congress is in session; 2) short-handed though many are, a Congressman often keeps one of his secretaries at home to watch his local fences...
Democrat Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala.: "We may not be statesmen, but we have not a chance to be as good statesmen as we might be because of the incubus of work...
...House Appropriation sub-committee dealing with military affairs last week had Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh interrupt his study of U. S. air facilities (TIME, May 8) to tell (in secret session) what he knew about aerial Europe. Witness Lindbergh, in a dark suit, dark tie, turned out to be a nice fellow who had flown German planes, knew they were fast but had not been allowed to use airspeed indicators. The German planes he saw were not so elaborately made as U. S. craft, could not haul bombs across the Atlantic. He told so little (scarelines in newspapers notwithstanding) that...
...taxes on $1,240,000, did not ask utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...