Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody hire their children when they were little bits of things...
...Oklahoma in 1924. By 1927 he had advanced so little that Detroit farmed him out with five minor league teams be fore they decided that he was not worth keeping. Two years later, a Giant scout saw him pitching in Beaumont, Tex. and persuaded Manager John McGraw to hire him. In May 1929, in his ninth complete major league game, Carl Hubbell pitched a no-hit game against Pittsburgh. Lazy and solemn in action, particularly fond of a "screw-ball" which breaks sharply down and away from batters, Pitcher Hubbell thinks he has improved since then. Says he: "I have...
...work their help more than 40 hours a week or pay them less than $15-to-$12 per week depending upon the size of the community. These latter employers were also asked to run their offices and stores on a 52-hour week basis, thus forcing themselves to hire additional workers to maintain the schedule. Other features of the "partnership" called for: 1) no child labor; 2) no wage cuts to the proposed minimum; 3) no profiteering; 4) no more price-upping than was actually necessary. Fixed-price contracts for future deliveries were to be revised to meet higher costs...
...theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers again...
...last week, headed by Col. Jason Joy, Fox studio executive and onetime inter-studio relations supervisor for the Hays organization. Another purpose of the Bureau, to be "owned and operated on a co-operative basis by the industry as a whole," was to make it possible for producers to hire talent without competitive bidding. Actors, writers, directors and especially agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting...