Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Received the following Third Termites: Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey (who also paid no attention to John Lewis) ; Norman Littell (Assistant Attorney General) and Marshall Dimock (Second Assistant Secretary of Labor), whom John Lewis denounced last year for conniving to put the President up again...
Four hours a day, six days a week thereafter, paid pickets patrolled the Edgewater Beach. The hotel continued to do business, A. F. of L. musicians continued to play inside. Strikers forgot what the strike was about, their unions spent $300,000 in picket wages. As suddenly and mysteriously as it began, the long strike ended last week at terms "satisfactory to all concerned." The terms (according to Edgewater Beach Manager William Dewey): no recognition, no rehiring, no more pay, nothing for the strikers except a good rest...
White-maned old Frank Lloyd Wright, dandy of modern architecture (Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Johnson Wax Plant, Racine, Wis., etc.) told Los Angeles it was "a flagrant example of an opportunity that had no attention paid to it-the Great American commonplace...
Feeling like a kid at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, Actor Jackie Coogan gave an affable bookie calling himself "Colonel Hunt" $500 to bet on the nose of a long shot, King Cotton. King Cotton won, paid off at $12.40 for $2 on the mutuel machines. Bookmakers do not operate at the New Orleans Fair Grounds...
...system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak. The New York State Legislature and Mayor LaGuardia knocked $8,300,000 out of the schools' budget. The Board of Education at once hoisted an SOS ("Save Our Schools"), but the public paid little attention...