Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Page 27 of TIME, Aug. 20 reports that Myron Weiss was married to Luba Wies by Rabbi Wise. Is this one of Mayor Walker's "wise-cracks?" Granting that TIME has these names spelled correctly, I submit the Rabbi is the wisest of the three Wises. He got paid for his share of the performance...
Than the Electoral College there is no more paradoxical body. It never meets as a whole. Its members are not legally bound to carry out the voters' will. Its members are not paid for their important services, and since their names are noticed or remembered by very few voters, they are scarcely honored. Moreover, the electors of any State may be chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does...
...committed perjury in the first instance. Frightened, she retracted her retraction, said she had signed the affidavit without knowing what it said, in return for $50 from Ben Bess's wife. The Bess side explained that Maude Collins had refused to sign anything unless she got paid. But Circuit Court Judge W. H. Townsend last week decided that the $50 was bribery, that bribery "vitiates" all things, even a Governor's pardon...
Nearing Portales, Mexico, last week, the passengers in a bus became frightened. They were on a straight road but the driver of the bus was making it go faster and faster so that it lurched across the highway. The passengers called to the driver; he paid no attention to their cries, but leaned lazily back driving with one hand, reckless and grinning. At last one of the passengers jumped into the seat beside him, pulled the emergency brake, stopped the bus and abused the driver who had been dead for about three minutes...
...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...