Word: kickback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend the Post 10% of their pay checks indefinitely, the loans to be repaid at 2% interest when, to the satisfaction of an employe committee, the paper makes money...
First onslaught came in late November in an SEC kickback at Charles...
...used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate on his own shipments but also a cash kickback from the freight paid by competitors. Thus if the rate was, say $2 per bbl. from Cleveland to New York, Standard Oil would not only get back 50? in rebate, it would also get 5? for each barrel shipped by competitors. All this was wrathfully exposed time & again but after...
...contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia Broadcasting System...
...third chair was occupied by his local counsel from Miami. Up rose the Secretary of the Senate to read the first article of the impeachment. It charged Judge Ritter with allowing a $75,000 fee to his onetime law partner in a bankruptcy case, getting a $4,500 kickback for himself...