Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile, would hook up New York, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo and many another city. Subscribers would pay between $25 and $100 a month, receive programs from noon until three a. m.- luncheon music, dinner music, dance music. There would be no static and, because Wired Music planned to hire its own artists, no interpolated advertising...
Angels, The Front Page), that he had bought screen rights to the book for $15,000 and intended to produce it immediately - with the original cast, if they would consent to appear. Producer Hughes hired Leo McCarey to direct the picture, Ben Hecht to work on the dialog. When he came to the problem of selecting a cast, however, Hollywood's indignation interfered with his plans. Only three cinemactors are under exclusive con tract to Producer Hughes - Billie Dove (sometimes reported engaged to him) ; Pat O'Brien (Front Page) ; Jean Harlow (Hell's Angels). Forced to hire...
...Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who pay to get a job, pay to keep it. An entire chapter is devoted by the Royal Commission to abuses and extortions practiced upon simple Indian peasants who come to town seeking factory jobs...
...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...
...rest, to do?'' If you postpone asking this question yourself until after reading this Horatio-Algeresque biography, you may still feel like asking it?unless you think the answer is obvious. From Mr. Laemmle's point of view, of course, there was nothing "odd" about it. People hire artists to paint their portraits, don't they...