Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins was allotted $142,245,875 to hire 169,000 relief workers in New York City, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana and the District of Columbia. Same day, the House clipped President Roosevelt's so-called "death sentence" out of the Utilities Bill...
Dear to the hearts of all Congressmen are their perquisites. Among these are free postage on official letters, free stationery, free clerk hire and (for Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
...startling innovation-and marched through the payroll with a big blue pencil. In the film industry, which is notorious for its nepotism, such Hertzian tactics were bound to stir up trouble. And having made enemies right & left, Mr. Hertz finally called for a showdown on his right to hire & fire. He lost. So horsy John Hertz retired to his polo and his racing. Early in 1933, unable to pay its bond interest and loaded to its Plimsoll line with bank loans, Paramount finally foundered...
...Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...
...mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph Bellamy to sell out his tottering independent line that they hire an inventor with a plane-destroying ray to wreck Bellamy planes. Several pilots, screaming unpleasantly, have fallen in flames before Bellamy finds out about the ray machine and bombs it to pieces. Everything is cleared up at the end except the chastity of Miss Tala Birell. Not that anything...