Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been as nice a part-time job as a man could imagine. The hours were easy and the pay was fat-$35,000 a year. But after word of the luscious salaries got out, Ezra Van Horn and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire found less enjoyment in their pay and duties as trustees of the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (TIME...
...Bridges tried to argue that most of his trustee's salary went to lawyers, accountants, and other expenses of the job. But last week a report made public by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee showed that Bridges had actually drawn $12,000 extra from the fund to pay for professional advice. Some time next month, said the embarrassed Senator, he would tell the "full story" and maybe he would quit the union job, to boot...
Workers were politely but firmly reminded that wage demands would have to be "compatible" with production-a reflection of official Communist concern with "liberated" labor's cry for more pay. Further, party members and intellectuals would be mobilized for trips into the countryside to re-educate peasants who are balking at high Communist taxes and taking to banditry and guerrilla forays...
Whatever his background, a youngster entering the Republic earns his own livelihood, pays for his board & keep in one of the nine cottage-type dormitories in the Republic's own currency (redeemable at about 50? on the dollar). Jobs range from ditchdigging and housekeeping to plumbing, carpentry, masonry, welding, and office chores. Average income of a Republic citizen is about 15 Republican dollars a week, of which living expenses take about ten. Chief drains on the remainder: Republican income taxes, to pay salaries and expenses of junior government officials; clothing and travel; savings...
Crime & Punishment. George Junior Republicans make their own laws in monthly meetings where citizens over 15 years of age (who pay a $1.50 annual poll tax) are allowed to vote. The kids also run their own police force and courts, impose and enforce sentences. Last week, only four were serving sentences for misdemeanors. Sample sentences: for boys, extra work with pay confiscated; for girls, more work and no makeup...