Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threat resulted in the calling of a referendum on a $550,000 bond issue to raise salaries, repair buildings, hire more teachers. To vote in San Antonio, however, citizens must be on the tax rolls, declare property valued at $10 or more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher...
...finance companies did not hire Mr. Croy. I, as counsel for Commercial Credit Co., appeared before Judge Geiger in the proceedings to which you refer. The record of those proceedings clearly shows that Commercial Credit Co. had nothing whatever to do with the employment of Mr. Croy. Neither it nor any of its representatives knew anything about the matter. Counsel for another finance company took sole and personal responsibility for the employment of Mr. Croy, and he stated to the Court that he had not consulted with any other company when he employed Mr. Croy...
Producer Dowling has bolstered the play's shadowy situations with the best actors he could hire on either side of the Atlantic. Forty-four-year-old Sir Cedric Hardwicke (youngest actor ever knighted) plays the witty Canon Skerritt, who glories in the forms of Catholicism, finds comfort in its intellectual discipline as he sips his old Madeira, calls his parishioners boobs, but achieves a state of grace through the faith of his kitchen slavey...
Lowes maintained that the University had never fixed the extent to which it would make use of the union in securing new employees. He implied that an attempt would be made to maintain the present ratio of union to non-union workers. The University would feel free to hire the best man for the job, but would be scrupulously fair...
...house-guest for the Christmas Holidays was a Harvard Junior who was required to submit, early in January, a forty-page paper in a course which I believe he referred to as "Ren. and Ref." Before his arrival he wrote to ask that I hire for him a typewriter with type of the standard size, for, as he pointed out, both the machines in my Study have the smaller elite type. His letter implied that he believed he could fill his assigned forty pages if the larger type-face was used, but not otherwise...