Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mesta, well-heeled oil and machine-tool heiress (TIME, March 14), raised Democratic campaign funds and stuck by Harry Truman last year when the canapes were scarce in Democratic circles. But she really hadn't expected any reward, she said, "not one single thing." "It would be a lot easier to stay in Washington and I'd have a lot more fun," she told a columnist. "But I think this post is an advancement for women and I ought to accept...
...Times told them to "sign" their letters with six-digit numbers and tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
...isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them...
...Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible, even by cheating their way to the top of their classes...
...good players have their reward-free games to those who reverence the machine and will not tilt, who use the flippers at the right time and the right place. When the final score is all added up in the end, the machine, with its unfailing precision, indicates how many more games can be played without the insertion of a nickel...