Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet the requirements of American psychology," the French Foreign Office hired last week one Leon Fleischmann, persuasive New York advertising writer, to translate all Foreign Office statements into U. S. English before cabling them to the French Embassy and consulates in the U. S. Impressed, many a U. S. patriot hoped that the U. S. State Department would take heed, hire 100% Frenchmen to translate into 100% French the often bewildering (to Frenchmen) statements of the U. S. Embassy and consulates in France...
...Belgrade diplomatic soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could not understand Americans...
...offered, under this plan the average person can procure a private pilot's license for approximately $125. This entitles him to fly any type of airplane, but due to the recent law passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, he cannot give instruction to anyone nor can he fly for hire. This price again is about half the usual cost...
...scattered among 168 boards and commissions, into eight departments-Executive, State, Audit, Treasury, Law, Education, Public Works, Commerce & Industry. A member of each department, he is to control its activities over the possible opposition of constitutional officers, by a majority vote of his own appointees. He was authorized to hire & fire at will all State employes, and those who are not rehired as part of the reorganization before June 30 are automatically out of jobs. He is free to juggle salaries up & down to suit his own judgment, thereby effecting an estimated saving of $2,000,000. Only the Legislature...
...Middle and Far East there is, the Commission found, a notable absence of that "vulgarity" common in brothels of the West.* Most Asiatics prefer to hire women of their own race. Solemnly the Commission postulates and advises that: 1) The principal factor in promotion of the international traffic in women in the East is the brothel. 2) The most effective remedy is abolition of the licensed brothel. 3) The most serious problem, so far as Occidental victims are concerned, is provided by the Russian women refugees in Manchuria and Northern China. 4) A large majority of Chinese prostitutes enter...