Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footballer became a law student and, at $6 per week, court reporter for his half-brother's (Charles Phelps Taft's*) newspaper, the Cincinnati Times. Another publisher paid $25 per week to alienate his services. He shared first honors in his class at law school, practiced with his father and got on quickly-assistant prosecuting attorney, judge of the Superior Court. He was only 33 when President Harrison made him Solicitor-General...
Presently Bat'a shoes began to move on endless belts past workmen, each of whom performed a single operation. If the belt hurried a little, why so did the workmen-and were paid according to the number of shoes they produced...
...April 16) climaxed in the demotion of her Captain, Kenneth G. B. Dewar, and her Commander Henry M. Daniel, because they had rebuked their superior Admiral, contrary to the rules of discipline, for using "vile and insulting language." Commander Daniel capitalized his notoriety by becoming a highly paid feature writer for the London Daily Mail. Captain Dewar, no capitalizer, suffered his demotion silently until last week, when he was promoted to be captain of the battle cruiser Tiger, Public sympathy and the potency of the press are responsible for Captain Dewar's vindication, and it is even rumored that...
...Japan paid joyous homage, for the bridegroom is Yasuhito, Chichibu-No-Miya, 26,-Prince and heir-presumptive to the Throne;* and the bride is Setsuko Matsudaira, 19, daughter of popular Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was Japan's Ambassador at Washington until he went home for the Imperial Marriage...
...market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...