Word: payed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present the Civil Service is lacking in funds and the increasing appropriations to pay salaries to any new men the first few weeks of their apprenticeship, but the bill pending in Congress, when passed, will remedy this deficiency, and all members of the service will thereafter be paid regularly...
Some of the huge amount of money which we must pay for war may come out of the current generation by taxes. Yet such taxes can both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...
...United States Government will pay all the expenses of the members of these corps, and will, in addition, give a salary...
...American Government. A training camp is to be established under the direction of regular army officers within two weeks in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and the men will be regularly enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and will receive at the minimum the pay of privates, which is about $35 a month (depending on legislation now in process of enactment). In addition the men who enlist, presumably for the period of the war, will receive uniforms, transportation and sustenance...
...been urged lately by some who, being of revolutionistic turn of mind, like to see any change, whatever it may be that we adopt "America" as our national anthem instead of the more martial song to which we now pay reverence. One reason set forth is that the "Star Spangled Banner" is well enough as an anthem in the bloody times of war, but in peace we need some more dulcet sentiment. Another is that "America" is well suited to the orchestration of the people's voices, whereas our present unlegalized national anthem is of too intricate a nature...