Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...till 1939 did the New York Curb Exchange hire its first paid president. Three years later, trading had fallen into such doldrums (average daily volume: 79,400 shares) that it could no longer afford this luxury. But business has improved so much since then (daily volume is up to 516,700 shares) that Curb members decided last week to try again. Their choice (at $40,000 a year) : Francis Adams Truslow,* one of Wall Street's most knowing securities lawyers and the Curb's own counsel since...
Congress thought earlier this year that it was cutting James Caesar Petrillo down to size with the Lea act, which made it a federal crime to force radio stations to hire unwanted help. After talking with his lawyers, Caesar thought otherwise, trumpeted: "I will fight the Lea bill right up to the Supreme Court...
...Angeles, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher, fresh from signing a new contract (and telling the world that the Yankees' Larry MacPhail had tried to hire him away from the Dodgers, which MacPhail denied), got a friendly welcome at the airport from Cinemactress Laraine Day, who i) bussed him fondly, 2) announced to the panting press that they were just friends. Promptly another old friend, Powers Model Edna Ryan, now a little confused, rose and pinned a label on him: the Artful Dodger...
...cuts down traveling expenses by racing only in California. Because it doesn't cost any more to hire a good jockey than a bad one (established fee: $35 for a winning mount, $15 for a loser), he usually uses a top one, Johnny Longden. But he believes a good exercise boy is more important than a good jockey, and hires the best grooms he can find, at top wages. The rest is a matter of bookkeeping: Willie pays the feed bills and the help, collects $10 a day for each horse, plus 10% of all purses. He will clear...
...never publicly advertised her ties. But with some 100 retail outlets such as Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus (which gave her its 1944 award for fabric design) clamoring for all she could send, the business expanded so rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once...