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Word: payless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose his assistant, William Harding Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Superintendent in Chicago | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Well | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Payless president of the New York association is heavy-browed Karl Emrich Eilers, 70, rich consulting metallurgist and payless president of Manhattan's up-to-date Lenox Hill Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: $8.50 Confinement | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Births | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Government subsidies to the Morris Schools were 250,000 pesos ($68,425) in arrears. Teachers, payless for two years, were sending each other memoranda on the margins of old newspapers. Pupils were doing their sums on the backs of used envelopes. Unless the Schools could raise 700,000 pesos in six months, their 15,000 children would go back to the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bill Morris | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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