Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land. During March 335 pay reductions averaging 10% and affecting 43,500 workers were reported to the U. S. Labor Department as compared with 26 cuts in the same month last year. March also failed to show any general increase in employment over February though manufacturing industries did hire about 1% more workers. In Manhattan industrialists gathered secretly to discuss the "advisability" of "wage adjustments," departed with the feeling that "moderate reductions" were inevitable. The textile, steel and oil industries braced themselves for further wage retrenchments...
...Adolf Hitler, as some German correspondents reported last week, is to tone down his Gang, moderate his policies and try to get one or more Fascists into the next German Cabinet. There is danger, indeed great likelihood, that many disgruntled Fascist gangsters-toughs who like direct action-will hire out to the Communist gangs. Such men see no sense in the only action Leader Hitler took last week against President Hindenburg's gag decree: he hired lawyers, had them get ready to bring suit on the ground that the gag is unconstitutional...
City employment committees have cut in on the number of jobs to be found there much as they have here. This same condition extends into other fields; for example, the United States post offices were ordered not to hire unmarried men for the Christmas rush, whereas in the past a large number of college men were always taken...
...almost unconscious invasion of the dean's study. But forget Cambridge of forty years ago and turn to Brown when Mr. Train's father was an undergraduate at Providence. Here is the bill he paid: To Tuition $12.00 Room rent 3.00 University Library 1.00 Steward's salary 2.00 Servants' hire, printing, etc 2.00 Repairs .55 Commons bill 8 weeks, $1.62 per week 12.96 Public fuel .50 Interest due to May 1st .68 Absent from prayers without excuse--once; absent from recitations without excuse--twice...
...widely anticipated. Applause rose from the galleries when small, precise Senator George of Georgia declaimed: "Four years more of Herbert Hoover and we'll be fortunate if we don't have to turn the Treasury into a community chest. ... If the Government wants to gamble, it should hire professionals, not amateurs...