Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy (see p. 12), accepting the resignation of the Under Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12), approving arrangements for his reinaugural parade and plans for a reviewing stand modeled on Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, preparing a statement urging industry to employ more men, particularly men over 40. authorizing the U. S.-owned Alaska Railroad to charter ships so that Alaska should not starve during the continued West Coast shipping strike...
Reputedly Kaiser Wilhelm II referred in 1914 to "England's contemptible little Army" and the disclosures of last week revealed that the French, while too polite to employ the Kaiser's adjective, recall how much squabbling there was between British and French commanders in 1914-18. They fear that the necessarily small British Army may have been more trouble than its heroism was worth. Putting this even more politely the New York Times observed last week: "French generals are not certain that they want another British Expeditionary Force on their flank clogging their roads and transport facilities...
...Atlanta, convicted of falsifying records of the Federal Penitentiary after 25 years in its employ, Clerk Harvey Frick asked to serve sentence in his old office...
This evening every up-to-date newspaper in the land has made arrangements to serve their readers in some fashion as that which the CRIMSON will employ. Some only use green lights, some use red lights, some employ the swinging counter-clockwise, north-and-south motion, while others simply use chalk...
...solution of the problem is simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements...