Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LaGuardia asked Mr. Ford to fit together two statements. Ford statement No. 1 (in the September Pictorial Review) : "If booze ever comes back to the U. S., I am through with manufacturing. I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages which the saloons would take away from them." Ford statement No. 2 (in the September Forbes Magazine) : "The tractors have already begun to come from Ireland and they are better than we have made here...
Meanwhile in Paris, diplomats, businessmen, soldiers and lovely ladies hastened to the Hotel du Pont Royal to pay their last respects. There Primo de Rivera lay in state in a brown homespun gown, coarse sandals on his large pale feet, a huge rosary of polished granite beads in his lifeless fingers. The Marquesa de Arguilles and Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos, two ladies whose intimacy with Don Primo had caused many a scurrilous press clipping, came early in the afternoon, gazed sadly at their friend in one costume they had never seen him wear, the habit of a lay brother...
...least $1 to "the Life War Chest." It was promised that "every penny thus received will be used by Life to buy similar publicity throughout the country." The astuteness of this proposition was at once apparent: by working on Prohibition sentiment, the magazine would literally get the public to pay for a lot of out-and-out advertising. Yet no one would mind, in fact, all contributors would be glad to help so public-spirited a publication...
...that workmen are more efficient under the Volstead Act is to pay a compliment to the virtues of home brew and dago red. . . . Prohibition has failed to prohibit...
...letter which called forth this response was addressed to the President, Fellows, and Overseers of the University, and in general protested the action of the University authorities throughout the affair. The demand was made that back pay be given all of the women in order to remove from Harvard any stigma which might have accrued to her in connection with trying to evade the Minimum Wage Commission's ruling...