Word: employed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orange Blood. Only ten years ago, on the Day of the Battle of the Boyne, Sir Basil Brooke, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, had said some pretty harsh things about a people who make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout...
...House, in less than half an hour, voted yesterday to repeal 57 wartime statutes--ranging from the law empowering the President to censor communications with foreign countries, to his authority to employ $1-a-year...
...Oklahoma, they were directed by the state's labor service from headquarters at Stillwater. The state service sent out mechanized brigades wherever needed, on a few hours' notice. When the cutters, some of whom own up to twelve combines and employ 25 hands, finish in Oklahoma, they will go to work in Kansas, helped by 4,000 combines owned by Oklahoma farmers. By September, they will be sweeping like beneficent locusts across North Dakota into Manitoba...
...costing the Finns some things they value more highly than money. They must house and employ about 450,000 émigrés-more than one-tenth of Finland's population-from the territories the Finns gave up to Russia. How many stayed behind? The highest estimate I got was 40; a leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland...
Arthur H. Schmon, 52, mustached president of McCormick's Ontario Paper Co. and head of its timberlands, paper mills and ships, bosses more people (7,850) than the Tribune and Daily News employ together (3,200 apiece). He was the Colonel's World War I adjutant, named a son Robert McCormick Schmon, is probably closest to the boss of all executives (none of them calls him "Mac," and few presume to call him "Bert...