Word: employ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet steamed for home in one portentous sentence: "Officers were obliged to employ intensive persuasion...
...then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen represent them. Every year they ship some five million fruit trees and plants to all parts of the world. Thirty-five years ago in Iowa they discovered the original Stark Delicious Apple. Each year they discover new and better fruit...
...problem, decided the National Association of Organists when 200 delegates met in Manhattan last week for its 24th annual convention, is the increasing tendency of churches to employ "choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think...
...exist several sorts of Mexican Ku Klux Klans. One of them is the Comite Nacionalista Anti-China de la Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
Unique among Colorado coal diggers is Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second in production only to Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp. Rocky Mountain is the only Colorado colliery to employ union labor. Last week Rocky Mountain became unique in another respect: 600 of its Union miners voted to go without half their wages for three months. Miss Josephine Roche, the company's 40-year-old, black-haired, thoroughly feminine president, gladly accepted their offer...