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...Welch Bill, raising the salaries of 135,000 Federal employes a total of $20,000,000 per annum, the first general Federal pay-rise since 1853, effective July 1. The average annual increase per employe is $148 per annum, or $2.85 per week. President Luther Steward of the Federation of Federal Employes was so pleased that he carried off the pen used to sign the bill and sent it to be framed...
...Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes will reach St. Louis in time for luncheon, pause in Kansas City, arrive at Wichita...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...
Last week High Steward Poincare completed his indirect accounting and appeal to the electorate by shrewdly declaring that in 1928 he will (i.e. if supported at the general election) complete the fiscal rehabilitation of France by finally and legally stabilizing the franc...