Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl had all of Huey's lust for power and none of Huey's sure sense of how to use it. Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...
...Mama always seemed to have something to worry about. "To my sorrow," she wrote from Paris in 1907, "I find . . . that my dear boy's bills are not paid, though two years old. I have today been to the bankers and the bills are paid...
...Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...
...restating the rules, the VA emphasized that subsistence is paid without interruption throughout the period of enrollment in the university, which is usually a full, two-term year...
This has been the HOC's most successful year thus far, its officers feel. For 15 year the club's membership never exceeded 70 and this year 200 have paid their dollar dues. Siddall attributes this year's especially high membership to the extensive membership campaign the HOC launched early this fall. The most successful element in this campaign, he says, was the distribution of literature about the HOC's activities...