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...there are many wedges in the walls of prejudice: ¶ Telephone companies in the North, all white until a few years ago, now employ 5,000 Negroes...
...most prevalent and influential interpretation of the happiness phrase was that fostered by the famous post-Civil War Slaughterhouse cases; happiness hinged on, or was equal to, the right to employ and be employed as one pleased. For a nation in the awkward stage of its industrial adolescence, this was a fortuitous interpretation indeed, but it did little toward finding the ultimate definition...
...spread rumors, but all that concerns us is that they do not get their way ... If to destroy the evil and dishonest I must go down in history as a tyrant, I shall do so with pleasure . . . And may God grant that I won't have to employ the most terrible punishments...
...wondered if you were aware of the relationship between Miss Russell and Hazel Washington, a charming Negro woman who entered the employ of the actress over a decade ago as a maid and subsequently became a business partner . . . This friendship, plus the many instances of charitable endeavor you cited in "The Comic Spirit," is the basis for an award to be presented to Miss Russell ... for her contributions in the field of human relations...
...symposium was conducted to aquaint doctors with health problems in industry. Ninety per cent of all industries in America employ less than 500 workers and most of these have no sort of health protection...