Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months the R. F. C. has lent U. S. railroads the sum of $365,782,843 with which to meet taxes, hire workers, pay off creditors, replace equipment. If these loans are not repaid the U. S. Government will some day find itself the proprietor of most of the railroads in the land. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last year Franklin Roosevelt put the carriers on notice that they could not look for an unlimited flow of credit from his Administration. He was ready to help them through the slump but they, in turn, must accept more...
...language requirements must be met, and some provision must be made for the failings of secondary schools in this department. Separated, these courses have been elementary to the extreme. The logical remedy would be to combine the merits of both, put the new course under intelligent active guidance, and hire able instructors...
...effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory that the employer who wants to keep his production at current levels must hire 25% more workers to obey the law. President Green of the A. F. of L. jubilated: "It's the first constructive measure yet passed dealing with unemployment. It strikes at the root of the problem - technological unemployment...
Nothing in the bill prevented employers from slashing wages to compensate for the new workers which the Senate was trying to force them to hire. The measure's critics loudly pointed out this defect, predicted a dire slump in already deflated wages or else a sharp jump in manufacturing sales prices. For the Black Bill to be completely effective nothing less drastic than a minimum wage provision was required and this the Senate did not yet dare to vote...
...worst thing he did was to hire some young college men from the Yale and Harvard clubs. . . . College men can't get to first base with a longshoreman, and all of them together brought in only $1,000 worth of business for the year...