Word: unpaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold. None of the 100-odd musicians got paid a cent, not even the conductor. On the contrary, every one of them had to pay 25?. The Rehearsal Symphony, which meets twice a month in a Los Angeles auditorium, is the only U.S. orchestra of professional caliber which plays unpaid, almost unheard-in short, strictly...
...drape. Fawcett men traced the wires to a room three stories above. The spy had fled, hearing all was discovered, he had paused only long enough to cut his end of the dictagraph loose, grab his hat and coat. Behind him he left luggage, laundry, razor, expense account, unpaid bill. He was registered "J. P. Wriegel, 5 East 34th Street, New York," which is the B. Altman Department Store...
...Capone was served with papers in a $119,367 suit against him for unpaid taxes on illegal beer vintages of the '20s. To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good...
LaGuardia and his running-mates have put themselves up for office on the strength of their thorough adherence to the foreign policy of the President, and on the basis of their record in office during the past eight years. From a near-bankrupt political football--with unpaid bills of some $100,000,000 in 1934--the nation's largest city now boasts a healthy bank balance of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. During this period, tremendous administrative economies have been effected, though the public works program has caused an increase in the amount of the annual budget...
...Mayor was still offensive to all solemn and stuffy New Yorkers who value dignity more than good (though somewhat fantastic) government-and there are many such in the Republican Party. When LaGuardia took office in 1934, New York had unpaid bills of some $100,000,000, while its October 1941 bank balance was more than $218,000,000; the LaGuardia administration, while effecting enormous economies of management, had built 92 new school buildings, 14 health-center buildings, nine child-health stations, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 15 outdoor swimming pools, 845 wading pools, 252 tennis courts, 8,210 acres...