As part of the scheme, Potts' mother was put on the payroll of a conspiring business, the indictment says.
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But in order to avoid anti-nepotism laws, the children were often put on the payroll of the RNC or DNC, Wead said.
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Officials said the 80 names handed over were mainly older commanders who might be put on the payroll but who would probably go onto the inactive list.
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For this he was put on the payroll as the county's register of deeds, Elliot Willensky wrote in "When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957," published in 1986.
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He was put on the payroll of Furness Abbey under royal mandate.Victoria County History: Lancashire, volume 2 – Chapter 6: Houses of Cistercian Monks 5, The Abbey of Furness, section 2 In October 1535 he was entrusted with an important mission. Holcroft and William Barlow, Prior of Bisham, were sent to James V of Scotland to pave the way for an alliance between the two countries, hitherto in conflict. The aim was to arrange a meeting between the two kings, and to explain to James, King Henry's unfolding policy of breaking with the Pope and enriching the Crown through Dissolution of the monasteries. In 1536 Holcroft was sent to deliver messages to Queen Margaret, Henry's sister and James's mother.
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Named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, and called by his middle name, Lincoln Borglum was the first child of Gutzon Borglum and his second wife, Mary Montgomery Williams (1874-1955). During his youth, Lincoln accompanied his father to the Black Hills of South Dakota and was present when the site for the Mount Rushmore monument was selected. Although he had originally planned to study engineering at the University of Virginia, Lincoln Borglum began work on the monument in 1933 at the age of 21 as an unpaid pointer. Lincoln Borglum quickly moved into a series of more important jobs: He was put on the payroll in 1934, promoted to assistant sculptor in 1937, and promoted to superintendent in 1938 with an annual salary of $4,800.
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In December 1936, she was put on the payroll of the Works Progress Administration as secretary to R. Frederick Sparks, supervisor of the WPA Historical Records Survey. It was during the period that she became a member of the Communist Party, under the pseudonym Irene Wood, and held various positions and attended various meetings of the party In August 1937, "in accordance with Communist Party decision, upon which I acted", Vale requested and received transfer to the Federal Theater Project of the WPA and, with others, worked on a play titled Sun Rises in the West, about migratory workers, which was later produced at the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles and the Greek Theater in the Hollywood Hills. In March 1938, she transferred to the Federal Writers Project, where she was editorial assistant to Robert Brownell, who was in charge of the history essay for the Los Angeles Guide. Vale said she mailed back her party book in resignation in mid-1938, and in October of that year she learned she was expelled from the party.
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