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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...
...phenomenon not immediately observable in the statistics: all the army's work across the U.S. is carried on by 5,000 officers, 37,500 soldiers (these are the 42,500 of the Salvation Army in the U.S.), a few thousand non-army paid employees, and a handful of unpaid doctors and dentists. Around the world, preaching salvation in 102 languages, there are only some 125,000 all told in the hosts of the late General William Booth. But like Joshua's army at Jericho, they multiply their strength by sheer ubiquity. Their coffee-&-doughnuts campaign in World...
Officers' pay ranges from $10 a week to the "about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly to any part of the world, at his superior's command...
Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...
After fining Polak for court expenses, Judge Louis L. Green told him, "If you want to raise a question, why don't you see the City Solicitor?" He also said that the student could appeal the case to a higher court. Polak paid the fine and left...