Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uncle Joe in those days was Speaker of the House and supreme dictator of the Old Guard. Never did a man employ the office of Speaker with less regard for its theoretical impartiality. To Uncle Joe the Speakership was a gift from heaven, immaculately born into the Constitution by the will of the fathers for the divine purpose of perpetuating the dictatorship of the standpatters in the Republican Party. And he followed the divine call with a resolute evangelism that was no mere voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that forbade anybody else...
...whom he has coached to see him before he leaves. Plans for the coming season, which will open on January 2 with a meeting of candidates in the Locker Building, Soldiers Field, will be discussed by Mr. Martin, as well as the system of coaching that he means to employ. In order to illustrate certain of his points motion pictures of last year's meet with Yale will be shown. Refreshments will be served...
...made entirely by lot. That is the system with which we started and after some consideration we have decided to continue to use it. It seems to me that is, after all, the fairest method. The ticket applications of last year's Freshman class were all cut to employ a preferential system of granting tickets by classes would necessitate cutting the applications of the same class again. Moreover, in consideration of the limited number of tickets to be distributed next year on account of the limited capacity of the Stadium, and the resuitingly smaller number of tickets to everyone...
...church we employ elaborate chairs and expensive choruses, and then we sit and listen instead of singing...
Professor Scipio of the Engineering Department is the chairman of a committee which is seeking to relieve the unemployment situation in the city. Under his direction a plan is being worked out to employ several thousand laborers in repairing the streets of the city. The Russians in particular will be given an opportunity to work on the streets, but the unemployed of all nationalities will be given an opportunity to work enough to keep themselves alive...