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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promotion of industry, saving and character ever devised, that a well-managed mutual company is a cooperative society for the advancement of the public welfare. ... I accept the nomination. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge may benefit financially from her husband's new work. The company's directors are paid $50 in gold for each board meeting and $20 in gold for each committee meeting. By custom these payments are turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated...
...ears of little Tsar Boris were soon well enough to permit his visiting Berlin, where he paid a formal call on President von Hindenburg, and the old warrior, convalescent himself from a light attack of influenza, received Tsar Boris in his bedroom...
...Barbuti, Olympic 440-metre champion, although officials said the one had nothing to do with the other. Barbuti, suspended by the A. A. U. recently after criticism of amateur conditions, charged in the April number of Sportsmanship (a magazine published by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood) that amateur athletics often are paid by promoters. The payments are arranged through intermediaries, he said, and paid in cash. Payments run as high as $500, he declared. He asked a thorough investigation and remedial measures. Later, however, he refused to give names and dates...
...week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric plants. Figures on num-ber of employes, total salaries and total sales showed that in 1928 General Electric Co. had paid an average of 73,526 employes $134,056,000 and had received orders for $348,848,512 of C. E. products. The average employe therefore was paid $1,823 a year (almost exactly $35 a week). The average sales per employe...
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