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Word: tp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into a seat, in order to earn even 25 francs ($1) per night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ushers | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Schools William McAndrew published his first annual report. A new broom, McAndrew was prepared tp sweep clean. He had conducted tests to show the Board how faulty was Chicago's teaching system, had found "appalling," "astounding," "very disappointing" facts about the pupils' ignorance of even the three R's and spelling. He deplored politics and blindness in the Board's past activities, lack of discipline among the teachers. Said he : "There is an organized disloyalty by a min ority that has lowered respect for the pursuit of teaching and made Chicago education notorious here and else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Room | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...paid-up insurance proposed. Such real fight as there was concerned this cash feature. The Battle. Senator Copeland of New York forced the issue-the cash payment alternative to the insurance bonus. The Democrats on the Finance Committee, in their minority report, recommended that a cash alternative tP the insurance be offered. They argued 1) that cash was what most veterans wanted and 2) that a cash bonus would be cheaper. They estimated that the insurance plan would cost $3,631,047,691 and the same plan with a cash alternative would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLDIER BONUS: The Inevitable | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...late J. H. Choate, Ambassador to the Court of St. James. His next place was as Second Secretary of the American Legation at Peking as direct successor of Mr. Fletcher. His subsequent service was mostly at the State Department in Washington. From 1920 to 1922 he was Minister tp the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Then he again succeeded Mr. Fletcher-this time as Under Secretary of State. Now he is scheduled once more to succeed Mr. Fletcher, as A. E. and P. to Belgium. Promoted from the ranks in Mr. Fletcher's footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ambassadors Three | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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