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Updated: April 30, 2025
We were not long in discovering that the foreman of the composing-room received "tokens of regard" from salesmen; that the foreman of the press-room was regularly on the payroll of several companies furnishing inks and rollers, and had a brother-in-law running a little print shop around the corner and spending very little money for ink, paper, and other such materials.
Still another executive selected by this department increased the output of one of the shops by 120 per cent, with a very slight increase in the payroll.
Programs to expand world trade and to harness the atom for the betterment of mankind have been carried forward. Our economy has been freed from governmental wage and price controls. Inflation has been halted; the cost of living stabilized. Government spending has been cut by more than ten billion dollars. Nearly three hundred thousand positions have been eliminated from the Federal payroll.
Well, say, that was a proposition to give you a headache. I couldn't go runnin' to Mr. Robert or the boss with any tales about Miss Marjorie. That ain't what I'm on the payroll for. But I couldn't let McCallum play a friend of mine for a good thing; so I just opens up on him. "Why," says I, "he's a never was.
"Sure," says I. "You didn't think I was makin' that crack at the armchair, did you? Maybe we ain't been introduced; but we're on the same payroll." "Oh, yes," says he, "I remember now. You're the the " "Go on, say it," says I. "I don't mind if it is red, and I lets anybody call me Torchy that wants to, even Willies." "Well, now, that's nice of you," says he, sidetrackin' a bite to look me over.
The morning after the crime, he had, like all the other secret spies, been interrogated by the successor of that unfortunate secretary who had put him on the payroll, concerning his observations at the hour of the crime, and had presented him the fairy-tale of a trip to the lido, on which he had the intention to investigate how the fisherman thought about all this.
Fifteen thousand seamen and soldiers were on its payroll; in that one year it used more than one hundred thousand pounds of powder significant of the grim quality of business done. It had more than four hundred cannon and thousands of other destructive weapons.
"I won't charge you a cent; otherwise it'll be two hundred and fifty dollars." He touched the bell in token of dismissal. "This fellow, Grossman, is certainly a big money-maker," he said to himself, after Abe had gone, "for me." The following Saturday Abe sat in the show-room making up the weekly payroll, and with his own hand he drew a check to the order of Louis Grossman for forty dollars.
"Yes," responded Scully, "so you could I never yet went back on a friend. But is it fair to leave the job I got you and come to me for another? I have had a hundred fellows after me today, and what can I do? I've put seventeen men on the city payroll to clean streets this one week, and do you think I can keep that up forever?
Little things like bein' on the payroll or not wa'n't botherin' him then. He gives me a bone crushin' grip and swings out to the elevator in a rush; for he's been away from Sis nearly half an hour now. Exceptin' a picture postcard or two, showin' the iron pier and a bathin' scene, I didn't hear from Mr. and Mrs. Mallory for more'n a week.
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