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...that point, Soapy Williams tore off the kind of statement that has become the bane of 1) his friends, 2) his own presidential hopes, and 3) his state. The Republicans, he stormed, had voted for "payless paydays . . . cutting off welfare funds . . . the destruction of our universities." Old Guard Republicans, who engineered the senate defeat, were indeed rather pleased at the prospect of once popular Democrat Williams standing before the nation as a flat-broke Governor. But responsible figures in business, labor and press were getting increasingly concerned that, in all the wild swinging, Michigan was getting a black eye that...
Last fall Pennsylvania became one of the first states to install a computer to issue state payroll checks automatically. The computer, put into operation too quickly, issued checks that were wildly off, left employees payless just before Christmas. The department turned the payroll job back to clerks, called in automation experts to see what had gone wrong...
...Paper. The dailies had laid off all but a handful of their 3,400 nonstriking employees on a payless "furlough." As a result, one sportwriter went to work in an iron foundry and scores of others took temporary jobs to tide them over...
...major money bills by mid-April, the Senate had dawdled for months, still had $29 billion-almost three-fourths of the budget-to approve. Twice the House had extended the time limit. Last week, after venting its spleen, the House voted another extension rather than risk the alternative : payless paydays for some 2½ million federal employees...
...Diego, Calif., Attorney Alfred Wesley Ingalls and his wife were charged with having kept a Negro maid named Dora L. Jones in payless slavery for 30 years by threatening to expose her for a misdemeanor in her youth. Californians were particularly horrified to learn that Dora had never seen a talking picture...