Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hatch of Clovis, N. Mex. But Mr. Hatch believes in gradual, rather than total immersion. Last year he converted a dazed Senate to his bill barring all Federal jobholders* from pernicious political activity. This year he wanted more: to extend this ban to all State jobholders whose salaries are paid, even in part, from Federal funds. For next year he has bigger ideas still, including a revival of Theodore Roosevelt's radical proposal (1907) to let the U. S. Government finance Presidential campaigns...
...vital, fundamental principles." There was something sour about this note that made those within earshot wince sharply. For Mr. Green had inveighed against both the NLRAct and the NLRBoard for many months, and his words had given most comfort to enemies of the Act. But little attention was paid him, for a man of bigger wind and deeper tone was playing...
...London market is a broker who subscribes for bonds not to fill orders on his books but believing he can resell them to laggards at a slightly higher price for small but quick profit. Sir John, by offering only 3% (some British loans in World War I paid 5%), had left the disgusted stags too thin a margin on which to operate. In City jargon the Chancellor was "trying it on the hard way," but when two top-hatted, scarlet-coated minions of the Bank of England swung its portals wide his confidence was justified. In went the stockbrokers...
...that Earl Russell's appointment should be rescinded. Cried Councilman Charles E. Keegan of The Bronx: "Any Councilman who reads his mail knows that the great majority of the taxpayers of this city do not want this alien coming in here with his moral code and getting paid from the city treasury. We should step in now and destroy the plot which began three years ago, when the Board of Higher Education set its cap for this man of doubtful moral character...
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