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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...Postmaster General Farley dropped in at the White House for an earnest conference about the payless furloughs ordered for Post Office employes as an economy measure (TIME, March 19). For six weeks that order had not only vexed mail carriers but had brought down criticism on the Administration for cutting pay and laying off men while Industry was ordered to do the reverse. When Mr. Farley left the President he went back to his office and issued an announcement: "Improved business conditions have resulted in a substantial increase in postal revenues. . . . I feel justified in revoking, effective...