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Valentine For Pay
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Edward Boyle, has received a Valentine card from 2000 Government telephonists asking for higher pay. not love The card contained a threat of strikes if the rise did not come soon. The girls, who are already operating a work-to-rule campaign. ended their Valentine: "And now that you’ve been fairly warned. Avoid the wrath of women scorned. I pray Sir Edward keep your tryst. Your broken-hearted telephonist.’’ —London. February 14. News Value "We have a strange idea in our society that bad news is exciting. Nowadays people read the newspapers instead of the Bible, but the •good news is in the Bible." said Bishop Gerald Kennedy, of the Methodist Church of the United States, when he spoke at a public meeting at the Wesley Church, Wellington. .
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29748, 15 February 1962, Page 12
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