Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dramatically, Mr. Bonynge next described to the Commission "a man of vicious and ruthless disposition": Captain Frederick Hinsch of the German Secret Service who, while held in Baltimore on the interned steamship Neckar, manufactured tubes of anthrax cultures in his cabin, then sallied forth to hire Negroes who jabbed the germs into horses and mules bought by the Allies for War purposes. One batch of 4,500 beasts was jabbed so thoroughly that not one reached France alive...
...concluding speech Dr. von Lewinski also waxed hot about anthrax germs. Admitting freely and officially that a German agent did hire Negroes to jab animals with anthrax, he asked in effect: "What of it?" He stressed the point that "only animals" were jabbed. "It is fantastic," cried Dr. von Lewinski, "for the Americans to assert that 'human life was endangered.' We all know that anthrax germs are not harmful to human beings...
...produced results in Atlanta. The Constitution broke its silence, reported that the Federal Grand Jury would soon inquire into the Black Shirts. Basis of the investigation: charges that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws...
Most industries in such a situation would form an association, hire a good publicity man, set things right. But the lightning-rod-makers, while they published sales booklets filled with startling pictures of lightning and burnt houses, did not have to do this. In 1915 the National Board of Fire Underwriters set standards for equipment and ever since has urged the use of lightning-rods...
...holidays respectively occur this year Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 2. Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very difficult, for many a European-born Jew was educated for the rabbinate because secular schools would not receive him, because many a Jewish family like many a Roman Catholic family expects particular favors from God by giving...