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...your salary is nothing per month, how much do you lose when your pay is cut by one month? This is only one of the questions bothering Chicago's 14,000 school teachers, unpaid save for two weeks' salary during the past six months. This year's school term was shortened by two weeks, vacation salaries cancelled, which amounted to a month's pay lost. Few teachers could go vacationing, few could even find jobs to keep them going until autumn. Three weeks ago the Board of Education was urged to save $5.000,000 by closing...
...associations of U. S. public school teachers held their annual conventions last week. In the ranks of both were many teachers whose salaries had been cut. The 14,000 Chicago school teachers, notably, had been unpaid save for two weeks' salary in the past six months. Never highly paid, many a teacher had nonetheless helped feed destitute children during the year. Closely in touch with the ranks of the needy, the teachers feared further retrenchment. How would they avert...
...Long unpaid, Chicago school teachers made $2,500 by presenting the School Scandals of 1932, a revue dealing with the celebrated troubles of the Chicago Board of Education. Last fortnight the Board received a twelve-volume survey of the schools (cost: $100,000) from Dr. George Drayton Strayer of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Chief recommendation: that $16,000,000 be pruned from the 1933 budget...
...TIME'S source of information was the A. A. A.'s publicity department. 2) Yes, TIME does designate as "lobbying" the appearance in Washington of citizens endeavoring to influence legislation to their own benefit. But TIME attaches no stigma to such lobbying, either by paid or unpaid agents, where openly & honestly conducted. The practice has become a necessary part of U. S. legislative procedure...
...explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood was simply an unpaid secretary who took money (between $800 and $1,000 a month) to Mayor Walker's widowed sister, paid the expenses of plump Mrs. Walker's yacht (the Mary W.), tended financial odd jobs...