Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead the high price of carrots and celery with Correspondent May Craig of Maine. From another press conference he absented himself, letting Secretary Steve Early do the honors. At week's end he showed himself at the President's Cup speed boat regatta on the Potomac but paid small attention to the races. Europe was on his mind. Returning from the races, the President again saw Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (fresh back from Paris), then Secretary Morgenthau. After dinner, from 10 p. m. until past midnight, he sat alone in his study pondering. Besides the events...
Although $237,000 has been spent to date on Filipino fares, both Immigration officials and California Labor regard the repatriation program as a flop. Remaining in the U. S. are 120,000 low-paid Filipino farm workers, houseboys, janitors, cooks. Half are in California, 97% are bachelors about 30 years old. "The boys," explained Dr. Hilario C. Moncado, president of the Filipino Federation of America, "do not want to go back without money or assurance they will earn a living." Another good reason is that in some cases boys are loathe to leave a country where, as a California judge...
...will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism of blood, a kind of ransom that had to be paid for the renewing of Spain...
According to Nazi bigwigs, not a few of the 110,000 Jewish traveling salesmen thus left jobless are likely to be pressed into service digging on the Siegfried Line of German defenses against Fiance, where they will be paid 24? per hour...
...Total tax-exempt securities in the hands of non-Governmental owners aggregated $50,522,000,000 on June 30, 1937, paid interest of $1,554,000,000. (Another $15,126,000,000 with interest of $397,000,000 was held by Government bureaus, sinking funds, Reserve banks...