Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...council assembled last week, the Fathers of the busted City of Brotherly Love adopted a desperate measure. They levied a flat 1½% income tax on all wages or salaries earned in the city.-Beginning next Jan. 1, everybody's paycheck may be clipped-whether they are bankers, WPA-sters, or suburbanites who live elsewhere but work in Philadelphia. Only ones sure of exemption are corporations, which already pay a State levy and cannot be doubly taxed. A few unions squawked that employers would have to up wages 1½%. But the mass of citizens sleepily accepted the fact...
...rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept stamps in lieu of part of their next paycheck...
With this quotation from George Crabbe, Economist Dickson H. Leavens prefaces a chapter of "summary and conclusions" in Silver Money, a comprehensive book published last week.* A white-fringed Yaleman of 52, Author Leavens first got interested in silver when he was teaching in Changsha, China, found that his paycheck fluctuated constantly. Today an acknowledged authority, he is employed by the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, a Colorado Springs nonprofit organization set up in 1932 by Alfred Cowles...
Whereas University waitresses always know what their weekly paycheck will be, outside waitresses can never be sure. Girls in the Square have been known to make $40 a week, that is, $32, in tips. They think it a poor week when they make no more than...
...tons of rifle ammunition and the caginess of General Frederick Funston to capture and subdue Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. As early as 1903, his ex-aide, Quezon, was working hand-in-glove with the conquering Yanquis as prosecutor for Tabayas and Mindoro Provinces. He has been drawing a government paycheck ever since...