Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
...Grynszpan is saved from the guillotine it will make Clarence Darrow's snatching of Leopold and Loeb from the gallows seem like a successfully pleaded traffic case. However, Miss Thompson was able, with $10.000 (213.000 francs) in hand, to hire the Clarence Darrow of the Paris bar, the great Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, a fiery Paris-born Corsican who in the Herriot Cabinet of 1926 was Lender Secretary on Technical Instruction...
...symphony orchestras hire soloists to appear with them at concerts. In Continental Europe, it is often the other way about. There, a soloist who cannot get a paid engagement with an orchestra some-times pays the orchestra for the privilege of being heard with it. Fees for such appearances differ, depending on the country and the fame of the orchestra. In Paris an appearance, with rehearsals, costs $150 and up. In Germany and Austria rates are higher...
Last week for the first time in the U. S. an orchestra announced that it was for hire. Sponsor of the venture was U. S. Conductor Leon Barzin, who has long mulled over the problem of how U. S. pianists and fiddlers who are not headliners can get a chance to play with an orchestra. Conductor Barzin's new American Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group...
Some of the books were out of print, or not in English- ". . . the college . . . had run afoul of its first big snag." Unexpectedly? Hardly. The faculty contains competent scholars; we hire the printers; no snags to date...