Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Illinois legislature, two years ago, voted $24,000 for a guy named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole...
Cried a woman in a Seattle department-store elevator: "Honest, it's a sin to buy so much with prices like they are. The way I figure, Harry's paycheck is worth half of what it was eight years ago. So when the salesgirl tells me how much something costs, I just divide it in two in my head. That way, I don't feel...
Sneak Attack. In Memphis, Railroad Worker Earskin Johnson sued for divorce, charged that his wife had asked a voodoo doctor to hex him into giving her his whole paycheck...
Anyone who says that professional football lacks the old college try will get an argument out of Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland's pro Browns. He has made it his business to see that his men enjoy the game as much as the paycheck. "The greatest professionals play for pleasure," he insists. "I have probably the most amateur professional team in captivity...
Give & Take. In Cleveland, William Mate was granted a divorce after telling the court that his wife regularly took $147 out of his regular $147.50 paycheck. In Chicago, Betty Bajorin complained to the judge that her husband threw eggs...