Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...
...prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods were unlikely to help in settling the biggest labor dispute of all: how much Cuba's 400,000 sugar hands would be paid for harvesting the winter's cane crop...
...janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
Students, unaware that their cars are parked in the garage, have waited over a day before claiming them, and then have paid only after protesting the fee, the Ellery manager reported yesterday. He expected an increase in his business as the campaign gets stronger...
Local Angle. It is Tufty's boast (among many) that "I was the only woman writer on the Dewey train in 1944" (not Counting LIFE Researcher Lee Eitingon). The trip paid off with more than news. When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...