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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Waitresses Receive Less in Income Than Girls Working in Square | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Fireworks & Fear | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fight in Flight | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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