Word: payed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...
...Stoneman also wrote about "a British officer with one of the most famous names in England" who went rabbit-snaring by night with two poacher privates, got caught by French gendarmes and charged 1,000 francs (which he would not pay...
...cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...last winter, finished it in three or four days. At Los Angeles, where he is teaching at the Otis Art Institute, Painter Brook told an interviewer last week: "To me it was a sad scene, and I guess I like sad things. . . . What does anyone do with $1,000? Pay bills, I guess...
...divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary Hopkins and ghostwriters spoke for the New Deal wing, which has no real faith that Business ever will produce prosperity and wants to be on record against the day when the boom collapses and more appropriations will be asked from Congress...