Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese in the employ of foreigners in Sha-mien (foreign section of Canton), went on strike because of the British Consulate's new requirement that all Chinamen employed in Sha-mien shall be equipped with passes bearing their signature and photograph if they leave or enter that quarter after 9 p. m. The Chinese declared that the regulations place them on the same footing as criminals. Twenty-six unions walked out in sympathy with the grief-stricken Chinamen from Sha-mien...
...University the young Benjamin Lamme studied electricity but slightly. He was a prodigy in mathematics - which explains his later power to perfect the most intricate inventions in his mind, without pencil or paper. Differential calculus and high-range multiplication were his diversions. Upon graduation, in 1888, he entered the employ of the Westinghouse Co. He began inventing then, and stopped only at his death, after having given the world 150 useful devices...
...them) to those graduates of music schools and of the music departments of colleges and universities, who give the greatest evidence of brilliance in competitive examinations to be held in October. But "no beneficiaries will be granted money to study abroad under this plan." Instead, the Foundation will employ teachers, operate its own studios and give daily direction to its fellowship-holders. Dr. Noble himself will keep check on their daily work and progress. Students who are at present sojourning in Europe have already been notified that the support they now enjoy from the Foundation is to be withdrawn. Their...
...realize that American politics as well as placer mining, is a fickle pursuit. Four years ago he contributed $75,000 to the Democratic national campaign, was Second Vice President of the Democratic Central Committee of California, and was known as the "Boss of the Southwest." He had in his employ four retiring or retired members of Wilson's Cabinet: W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas W. Gregory, Attorney General; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; and Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. California politicians even urged his nomination for the Vice Presidency to run with James...
...Randolph Hearst to have this season of work. He will realize, by actual experience, the truth of the statement made by his father, long ago, before a Congressional committee, that eight hours of hard work is as much as any man should be asked to do, and that the employer that can't make an eight-hour-day PAY is not fit to employ American labor...