Word: payless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weathered even the worst (sic) years of the Depression in good shape. I earned good wages as an inspector of automobile parts and materials. Towards the end of last year, however, the bludgeonings of circumstances bruised us badly. My present boss (I am still on a payless payroll), because of business conditions, has been able to provide me with only two weeks' employment during the past twelvemonth...
...federation this year had reasons for avoiding doctrinal fireworks. Chief reason: its coming of age in Chicago, where Local No. 1 (thanks to memories of payless pay days and a political spoils system in the school system) has enrolled 8,500 of the city's 13,000 teachers and gained for the federation its first majority in any city. Last week, having doubled its membership in two years, for the first time A. F. T. set its cap hopefully for the conservative rank & file of the nation's 1,000,000 teachers, of whom...
Last week these professional sparks had ignited a conflagration that threatened to consume the educational branch of Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash city administration. What payless pay days and hunger (TIME, March 7, 1932 et seq.) had failed to do-unite Chicago's warring teachers' organizations-the rankling McCoy and McCahey episodes had accomplished...
...savings to tide him over. In the last shut-down season there was no rise in the Detroit relief rolls, now down to less than 20,000. With shutdowns coming in late summer the regular layoff can be treated as something of a vacation. Formerly a worker got his payless "vacation" just before Christmas...
...postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke. Last week the nation chuckled when it was revealed that Postmaster General James' Aloysius Farley had been granted a payless leave of absence from his Cabinet post, would spend his new leisure at politics. Beginning Aug. 1, announced President Roosevelt, "General" Farley would give his time for three months to his duties as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...