Word: employ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gifted artist. . . . Miro's way with color is first class, in fact he is about the most thrilling colorist in the world today. ... In the new compositions facts are almost dispensed with completely. There remains however a color so lovely that the pure in heart must yearn to employ...
...appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic way Mr. Aldrich informed...
...only too obvious that a great many important people still wish to remain convinced, then there is another economy, this time internal, which might well be brought into play. Has it never occurred to Widener officials, during their conversations on this subject, that there is in their employ a body of about twenty men, whose jobs were created, whose time is at the disposal of the library, and whose work is paid for by a fund wholly beyond the library budget? The men under consideration are, of course, the undergraduates who work in Widener under the College Emergency Employment fund...
...market to the more efficient producers. On the contrary, excess capacity is still to be seen everywhere, and diminished demand is merely reflected in a general reduction of operation among producers. Inefficient producers have not ceased to operate, and in many cases the inefficient producer, by violating decent employment standards and under-paying his labor as well as working them too long, is able to employ greater producing capacity than his rivals who are fundamentally more efficient. This and other similar conditions show that unrestrained rivalry comes far from amounting to a system of checks and balances and an agent...
...encourage loyalty among its employes Manhattan's National City Bank allowed them in 1929 to purchase some 50,000 shares of its stock at the specially low price of $200 per share. Last week most of the employes completed their payments, took title to their stock, soon to be reduced in par value from $20 to $12.50 and now selling in the open market at about $19. The day last week's payment was due a number of National City's loyal employes resigned. Reason: by leaving the employ of the bank before the stock was turned...