Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
...with a hired pilot), investment (aviation, banking). No man to run from an honest dollar, he has made a huge estate in New York's Thousand Islands not only a luxurious nook for himself, his wife and two subdeb daughters, but a profitable attraction for summer tourists, who pay 35? a head to view its splendors. When Franklin Roosevelt last year picked him to get CAA off to a good start, Ed Noble sold his aviation holdings, soon made a record as a better-than-average public administrator...
...Navy wives had rushed to Norfolk to be with their men until the Fleet dress-paraded up to the New York World's Fair next week. Now that their menfolk were off to undetermined ports, many must wait until the Navy's next payday for money to pay holiday debts and get home...
Last week the civic muck of Kansas City, Mo., was stirred and roiled. How rich and black its muck could be, Kansas City had just learned from the indictment of Boss Tom Pendergast, charged with taking $315,000 in boodle and failing to pay U. S. income taxes thereon. What followed was more surprising: the boss's machine set out to prove to Kansas City that pure hearts can beat beneath mucky vests...
...Orange and Black are not blessed with material in such wholesale quantities as is Eli Yale, but they are a bit ahead of most of the League teams in experience--this may pay dividends in the early stages of the campaign...