Word: employed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Odets' Awake and Sing!, the tale of a family of disadvantaged Bronxites, did not employ all of the Group's acting company. And his short play, Waiting for Lefty, was not long enough to be presented alone. So the Group got him to whip together a brief companion piece, issued them both together. Till the Day I Die, the companion piece, passes the 60 minutes before Waiting for Lefty starts, and that is about...
...among the throngs of Negro idlers up & down teeming 125th Street. Believing that one of their own race had been victimized, a black rabble of 3,000 marched to the Kress store. Orators hoisted themselves up to shout against the additional injustice of white storekeepers in Harlem refusing to employ Negro help. Squads of white police arrived on the scene to be met with a barrage of stones and bottles. Before long three officers were hospitalized. Thereupon, the police waded in roughly with nightsticks, made arrests right & left. At this critical point a hearse drove up, destined for a house...
...limited group of college students considering some branch of public service as a future occupation, the Conference will be invaluable, due to the rich experience that each speaker has had. Such questions as civil service and tenure are of perennial interest, but of particular importance now when many are employed for three months in government offices in an effort to share the spoils with as many as possible. It must be remembered, moreover, that government will continue to employ great numbers even if some of the New Deal agencies eventually close their doors. As the history of political parties proves...
...Cabinet, beside itself with excitement, then chanted in chorus to the Realmleader the oath of blind obedience to Adolf Hitler, now taken by every German in the State's employ and by millions of others...
...prospects actually buys a Hupmobile, the person who sent in the name will receive a commission of $20 by going on the Hupp payroll at $5 a week for one month. Nothing is deducted from the salesman's or dealer's commission. Later Mr. Andrews expects to employ more of the public "with a consequent wider distribution of salary checks. . . . There is no limit to the number of names that can be sent. And the salaries we will pay will go up in proportion to the number of sales...