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...exclusively. When I entered this business about 20 years ago, man from college despised motion pictures. To work for such a company was far beneath their dignity. But within the last few years, they have seen the tremendous future ahead of motion pictures and many are now in our employ...
...Wall Street the other man did also and they left the car chatting together about my favorite magazine almost arm in arm. Now I am going to suggest something horrid, but I think it will be for everyone's good. Couldn't you employ a few fine looking men to ride back and forth on the subways, showing and telling people about TIME in just this casual way? I am sure that many people would be led to subscribe in this way-to their own great pleasure and profit. MARY PASTOR PHIPPS...
...noun "virgin" is not one which gentlemen or ladies employ, in any other than a religious connection. I shall inquire from my attorneys whether its use in the letters to which I refer is or is not libelous. You may rest assured that my married or unmarried state, as the case may be, is not a subject upon which I shall stoop to satisfy curious vulgarians...
...quietly raised from $8,000 to $12,000 per annum. He was cheered when he heaped contempt upon the "miserable coal camps of West Virginia" (nonunionized) and said that union miners would never let their standard be determined by "the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ." To signalize the U. M. W.'s proud defense of their present $7.50 minimum for six hours work, one Gus Smith would intermittently break into song, and the U. M. W. band of Monongahela, W. Va., led by one B. V. Bork, would trumpet the chorus, while galleries echoed the words...
...Typesetters are not expected to know anything; but we employ the best talent that money and good prices can command for proofreaders, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of their shortcomings...