Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Dixie has massively resisted state minimum-wage laws to cover local industry and retail businesses fattened by the new payrolls. Last week progressive North Carolina (TIME, May 4) broke the Deep South line with a 75?-an-hour minimum that assured prompt raises for 55,000 low-paid Tarheels...
Some 50,000 U.S. citizens, attending 66 celebrations across the nation (top tariff: $100 a plate), paid high tribute to Harry Truman on his 75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where about 2,000 Democratic Party faithful-plus a smattering of G.O.P. well-wishers -heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch...
...Since 1956, the Metropolitan News Co. of New York, one of 37 concerns that distribute New York papers, has paid out sums totaling $107,768 for "miscellaneous travel expenses." Asked by Chairman McClellan if these mysterious disbursements were payoffs to "some union officials," Metropolitan's Secretary Harold Weinstock took the Fifth Amendment...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...