Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restoring over committee objections $5,794,165 to continue Citizens' Military Training Camps, Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the pay of reserve officers on active duty. The bill reduced Army officer personnel by 2,000. ¶ Adopted a resolution by North Carolina's Warren opening clerk-hire records to the public (see col. 3). ¶ Passed a bill by Alabama's Bankhead authorizing the expenditure of $1,000,000 per year for four years to help State vocational education. ¶ Received from Arkansas' Fuller a bill to require each & every Government employe to know...
...secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket to swell the family income by means of the clerk-hire allowance...
Five or six men plan to hire a cruiser which they will use as a base for inland excursions to industrial plants in the South...
...crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence of a cleric in the negotiations would cement...
...savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...