Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the more reputable of the brethren, who do not write theses for hire, and who try in some measure to teach, have never pulled their weight in the boat here. It is perhaps too much to expect, if not too much to hope, that the Questionnaire should be the beginning of the end. RED RIDING HOOD
...Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, with a double master stroke, he capitulated to the demands of Newspaper Guildsmen, who had kept his Seattle Post-Intelligencer closed since last August (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball, is slated to be women's editor of the PI. If Mrs. Boettiger takes this...
...United Kingdom popular newspapers hire downy-lipped young peers to "review" new motor cars and the London Sunday Pictorial surpassed itself when it got the 6th Earl of Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...
...same period dipped from $156,992 to $29,945. First lesson Fund-Raiser Tamblyn hopes every school executive will derive from Now Is the Time is that if he wants his school to revive he had better start passing the hat. Second lesson is that he had better hire a professional to pass...
There are two highly funny scenes. One is the entertainment given by his fellow newshawks to Grant when he changes from a lazy reporter into an over serious city editor. They paint up the office, hire an impertinent copy boy and import a German band. Grant becomes very angry, and fires Bennett, who is the leading tease. She goes to New York and becomes engaged to the stuffed-shirt author of a book on How to be a Success...