pay-envelope

Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people.

David O. Russell: FDR Said It All in 1936 -- Who Will Follow in His Steps Today? David O. Russell 2011

The present attempt by those opposed to progress to play upon the fears of danger to personal liberty brings again to mind that crude and cruel strategy tried by the same opposition to frighten the workers of America in a pay-envelope propaganda against the Social Security Law.

Think Progress » Quoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2005

The present attempt by those opposed to progress to play upon the fears of danger to personal liberty brings again to mind that crude and cruel strategy tried by the same opposition to frighten the workers of America in a pay-envelope propaganda against the Social Security Law.

Think Progress » Quoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2005

“Mount the ladder to thorough knowledge — the path to power and to the fuller pay-envelope.”

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

The lieutenant said, "Have you seen enough?" speaking savagely, almost as though I had been responsible for these deaths: perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

So they can, but they can go home without a pay-envelope if they do, when Saturday night comes.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

And at the end of the week, Charles found the shiny dollar in his pay-envelope, beside his usual wages.

A Hive of Busy Bees Effie Mae Hency Williams

She had her own desk now in the busy workshop, and it was she who allotted the piece-work, marked it in her much-thumbed ledger -- that powerful ledger which, at the week's end, decided just how plump or thin each pay-envelope would be.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

In a week, Otti's eyes were shadowless, her lips smiling, her pay-envelope bulging.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

I don't know whether they did so or not; but Don's epigrams and bon mots would adorn any pay-envelope anthology.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923