Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reduced holidays and sick leave...
...general 11 % cut in Federal salaries was favored by the Congressmen. Mr. Hoover countered with a proposition to cut the salaries of the President ($75,000 per year), Cabinet members ($15,000), Senators and Representatives ($10,000) but to furlough other employes without pay and reduce their vacation and sick leave from 30 days to two weeks. Thus the bargaining progressed back & forth, with little discord and no politics. When the meeting ended the House Economy Committee had tentatively agreed to consider a list of changes which, if enacted, were estimated to save between...
...Sick Star. Last year's Circus premiere was saddened by the absence of Lillian Leitzel, famed trapezist who was killed in Copenhagen (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931). This year's absentee was Goliath II, the 5,000-Ib. sea-elephant who, with his friend Goliath I, brought the lower animals back into their own at a time when they were threatened with being eclipsed by aerialists, acrobats and human freaks. Circus-man Ringling bought the two Goliaths in Hamburg four years ago, exhibited the larger and elder until he died, then brought forth his understudy, who by then weighed some...
...Menlo Park, Calif, one morning last week to have a look at Phar Lap, the huge red gelding from Australia that won the Agua Caliente Handicap (TIME, March 28). When stable attendants refused them access to the great horse's stall, the visitors grew suspicious. Perhaps Phar Lap was sick. They waited around...
...almost went blind on it, finished the work in a dark room with bandages over his eyes, giving orders from his memory of the plans he could not see. New President Ervin has sold road materials, electrical appliances, skylights and sheet metal. His job now is to sell the sick steel industry the idea of building new plants, modernizing old ones...