Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre one was occupied by small, aging Judge Ritter. his arms folded, his face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according to Florida newshawks in the press gallery, Judge Ritter was obliged to mortgage his Florida home. The third chair was occupied by his local counsel from Miami. Up rose the Secretary of the Senate to read the first article of the impeachment. It charged Judge Ritter with allowing...
...friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...
...sings of absorbing the government jobholders, a permanent organization must sooner or later be put into shape. If planned on a long term basis, the W.P.A. could justify its existence on an economic as well as charitarian point of view, though it should of course be flexible enough to hire and discharge its employees as business conditions vary. In any event the workers' agitation serves a useful function in calling attention to the whole relief problem, and cannot be smoked out with a fusillade of "anti-red" propaganda...
...asking only for an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 to the Works Progress Administration. . . . This request . . . will, if acted upon favorably by the Congress, give security during the next fiscal year to those in need, on condition, however, that private employers hire many of those now on relief rolls...