Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight, explained Miss Josephine Roche, onetime coal operator (president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.), is just a sample of the cases in the files of the United Mine Workers' multimillion-dollar Welfare and Retirement Fund. With the 20? paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades...
...lock-ins were just one part of the Communist strategy of harassment. Last year, one U.S. executive had hired a group of workers for a specific 35-day project. They did the work and he paid them off. Last week, 250 of the workers stormed into his office and demanded reinstatement as full-time employees. After 15 hours of negotiation, the executive got off by paying the men an additional 35 days' wages each. "Actually," he said, "I was lucky, but how do I explain that to the boys back at the home office...
...been managed by the Trasteverini themselves until 1917, when the Fascist Dopolavoro (workers' recreation society) tried to turn it into an organized political celebration. "One year," recalls Housewife Felicetta Gaudenzi, "they brought a Negro all the way from Abyssinia to stand at the entrance to the bridge. You paid so much, and you punched him. Then, unless you paid extra, he punched you back...
Last week, under a huge canopy of festive lights paid for by the Giornale, Trasteverini thronged happily to the feast. The sponsors had discarded an original plan to crown as "Miss Vino" the Trastevere girl who could drink the most wine, thought it would be even more imprudent to hold a regular beauty contest. "The first," explained a committeeman, "would not be dignified in these times; the second would be too dangerous, because there are too many girls in Trastevere who are the most beautiful...
...elder Ford's weekly Dearborn Independent printed such anti-Semitic rantings as the spurious "Protocols of Zion." Hit with a $1,000,000 libel suit (he paid $75,000 out of court), Ford publicly disclaimed anti-Semitism and suspended the Independent...