Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this doesn't please you there is always the testimony of Rupert Hughes who pointed the red, red finger at the producers. He contends that "They are the people who hire and fire. I think they have been unjustifiably lax. They have paid from two to five thousand dollars a week to men whom they know to be brilliant. Many Communists are very, very brilliant...
...photographers you hire don't know from nothing...
Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...
...pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
Fabulous Failure. In 1914 Pyke, a Cambridge graduate, walked into the London Daily Chronicle and asked for a job. German armies were then surging through Belgium and the editor wryly agreed to hire Pyke if he could get a report from inside Germany. Seriously and logically Pyke set about journeying to the enemy capital...