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...Saturday, April 1, the 15 per cent paycut for federal employees went into effect," the Director continued. "Last year salaries above $1000 were cut eight and two-third per cent. Now we have made the cut on every salary from top to bottom uniform. This will provide for at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Douglas Explains $800,000,000 Economies Accomplished By Slashing Veterans, Federal Salaries and All Departments | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

...total weekly pay amounts to $1,500,000, blenched at the rumor that all studios would close for at least four weeks. Next day the producers met again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least if employes at $50 a week or more took a 50% paycut for eight weeks, with a 25% cut for employes under $50. What followed was a week of controversy, conducted in the wildest Hollywood fashion, so frantic that even the earthquake passed almost unnoticed. The week ended with every studio in Hollywood closed for the first time in history, while arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollyday | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...voted for: Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929), Federal Farm Board (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), War Debt Moratorium (1931), Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), Democratic Tariff Bill (1932), Revenue Bill (1932), paycut for Federal employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Bonus loans (1931), "Lame Duck" Amendment, (1931, 1932), Philippine Independence (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Federal employes paycut (1932), Unemployment Relief Bill (1932). He voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1921), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), State option on liquor (1932), Wartime income taxes (1932), full Bonus cashing (1932). He votes Dry, drinks Dry, has announced that, in line with the party platform, he will vote to resubmit the 18th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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