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Word: payless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Substitution (38-to-26) of President Hoover's 30-day payless furlough plan for Government employes in place of the 10% wage cut voted earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Chicago many a charge against past & present city officials arose from the finding of Gangster Jack Zuta's record books (TIME, Sept.1). Since the first of the year the city's finances have been in dire straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Managers v. Mayors | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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