Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower administration's policy changes have been made partly in response to a tremendous popular impatience with the seemingly endless complications in which Kora involved the U.S. On the surface, Steven-son's draft proposal seems an attempt to employ the same feeling as a Democratic vote-getter. If it were only that, the draft proposal would be a serious abandonment of leadership. But Stevenson, in his recent Washington press conference, went much further and coupled the idea with a statement outlining the need for new manpower policies in a period of continuing crisis...
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office said that his office would "investigate the situation." At the same time the District Attorney himself, Ephraim Martin, pointed out that the city could employ anyone it wished. But, he added, "my job is to investigate and indict, if possible, persons violating the criminal laws, and gambling is a crime in this State...
Since when does a Moscow gallery employ four-star generals as museum guards, as described in the footnote to the photo of Indonesia's Sukarno [Sept. 17 ]? That ''non-destalinized" personage in the uniform of a Red army general must have won many a battle with art patrons in his capacity as museum guard to have earned four stars, the Order of the Red Banner and four rows of ribbons. I wonder...
...Instituted by Music Czar James C. Petrillo in a campaign to force radio stations, bars and restaurants to employ members of the American Federation of Musicians...
More Work. The survey found that Negro unemployment in Houston has dropped from 11% in 1940 to "less than 3% of those who want to work now." Moreover, there has been a migration from the low-paying countryside to the city in response to expanding employment opportunities. From 1900 to 1950, while the Negro population of Texas went up 58%, the number of city Negroes quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another...