Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps Mr. Crabtree refers to the manner in which the Federal government distributes its expenditures among the States. A stock of merchandise in a village, whether owned locally or at a distance, would pay the same personal property taxes and the earnings on the business would pay the same Federal income tax no matter where it was owned. Mr. Crabtree is right, however, to this extent, that the earnings of a business which is owned locally are spent locally, but the earnings which...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
...interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule is very tractable. He attends to his work only and doesn't even make unreasonable demands in the matter of pay...
...everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...
...lost, however. The money that an early season football crowed will pay to see a good small college team utterly routed by a team far out of its class, will tide over many an evil day later in the athletic season. It may be sacrificing eleven good men and true on the altar of Mammon, but next year the same crowds will watch the same little teams mauled by the same big teams, all for the glory of the Alma Mater and the rightful share of the gate receipts...