Word: hire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Unless permits were issued, students could do one of two things. They could hire the occupants of the place to keep it all night at $5 and upward; or they could pay $2.50 and upwards for the place, and stay there all night themselves. They were on the same terms with any ticket speculator who cared to do the same...
...Land Bill," by Mr. Parnell, is the ballast of the number. In it the Home Ruler shows that the measure is totally insufficeint for relief, in that it will not reach one out of four Irish tenants, and that it would benefit a large number of tenants who hire but do not occupy farms, and use them only for grazing purposes. According to Mr. Parnell, the measure selects absentee owners for favored treatment, while it compels the real tenant to buy his land at an inflated price...
...that the students should not be committed to employing detectives. That part of the business was expressly left to the discretion of the committee. This committee had decided that in their judgment this was not the proper thing to do, and feeling that in their refusal to hire detectives they might not be supported by public opinion they had decided to call a second mass-meeting. Mr. Garrison then moved that the same gentlemen be elected a committee to receive subscriptions to pay for the property destroyed last Saturday...