Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Hamlet only made things worse, but Mediator McGrady was making real progress when the strike came. Last week there was a split in the shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing...
...province of Bahr el Ghazal, commonly called "the Bog." His book is memorable for its 48 excellent photographs and for his direct writing about the ways of African whites and native women, about the two handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom it is to straighten their hair with cows' urine and paint their faces white...
...should not be paid their due salary, and insists that if the word amateurism is to mean anything, then the amateur teams must play in their own league, Professional teams, or those who claim they are amateurs but are really pro or semi-pro, should openly confess that they hire players. Games could then he played in a professional league. "For God's sake, a little logic." is the parting pies...
...advisability of this plan is obvious when the financial and personal problems of the College are analyzed. Harvard cannot afford to hire more tutors, and unless this is done the present tutors will continue to be grossly over-worked and underpaid. The solution, obviously, is to cut the number of men being tutored...
...remedy, the new arrangement of prior cooperation between Houses is expected to correct these ills. Dates for the chief dances will be assigned in committee; there will be a general move to musicians of reasonable hire; and ticket rates determined in advance will allow for no last minute competition through reduction or other alteration of prices...