Word: redresses
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...case of any reduction of personnel. Small complaint have Government jobholders against their boss, for most of them drew pre-Depression pay till April 1933, then took a 15% cut for a few months, now have won back all their original wages. Last week they set out to gain redress from the risk of marriage on the payroll...
...prevent the return of the railroads to men of the same type as those who have mishandled the roads in the past, just so long is the confidence of the American investor going to remain impaired. The way to restore confidence is to get the facts, to secure redress for the investing public, and to make sure that the railroads and $20,000,000,000 to $25,000,000.000 of the people's investments will be placed in hands far more honorable and competent than in the past...
...time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire we have had, your department, through inexcusable carelessness, was unable to protect me. What redress will the city offer me in the way of freedom from further taxes to offset this calamity which has happened to me? I would like your reply before I take the matter to court...
...State of which I am ashamed. Let the North, West, and East remember that in the South, as well as their own regions, intelligence is in the minority, and that, by a sometimes faulty axiom, the minority is right. Foreseeing a possible run of cancelled subscriptions, the redress of trodden toes, I say such a move is the mark of the subscribers' grade of intelligence. They do not deserve to read TIME...
...Mich. Fugitive Youngblood fatally wounded a sheriff before he himself was killed.) From Crown Point in seven weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health officer to redress it. Few days later three Federal agents trapped him in a St. Paul apartment with his sweetheart, Evelyn Frechette. Whipping out a machine gun, he sprayed his way to freedom but not before he had been pinked just above the knee. At the point of a gun he forced another...