Word: employed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first chapter of "We Accept With Pleasure" is a model chapter, it is understood. Last spring the prolific Mr. De Voto lectured his students on what material a novelist should employ in the opening chapter. "I've read novel after novel handed in for English 31, but never have I found a really balanced opener," he declared, and to illustrate his point, read off a piece he said was written by a close friend of his. "This is the first which covers all the essential points...
...buys his stock readymade, to such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble...
Pretext for the seizure was an ultimatum, by President Mendieta to Cuban Telephone demanding that it re-employ certain strikers, including men who had committed acts of sabotage last spring. Loyal employes were subjected to weeks of terrorist intimidation. Several had their houses bombed. Last week they manifestoed: "We will not work with strikers who have tried to murder us." But President Mendieta, convinced that he was posing as the Friend of the Masses, pushed on with his ultimatum which was flatly rejected by U. S. General Manager Henry C. Hart of Cuban Telephone...
When word leaked out that Manager Hart had resigned, female Cuban Telephone employes filled the corridors with their wailing. When Mr. Hart walked out he was cheered for five minutes. Said the loyal employes' spokesman, Secretary Pablo Martinez of the Telephone Workers Union: "Under no circumstances will the present workers agree to the return of the strikers." He then asked his followers to give Interventor Montoulieu a chance, assured them "If the Government's management proves unsatisfactory we can easily retaliate by paralyzing telephone service throughout Cuba." Said the Interventor: "I will employ common sense. This matter must...
...reasons for this conclusion are found in President Roosevelt's executive order exempting businesses in towns of less than 2,500 population which do not employ more than five persons and do not compete with other businesses, with certain exceptions. These exceptions do not include bakeries...