Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuit of his business-and-hobby the composition of the U.S. Navy, wasn't getting to be too much of a good thing. He had little peace and less leisure. His phone rang all day. His little office was busy as an anthill. And he had to hire a secretary...
...Board's method would require all war industries to hire labor only through the U.S. Employment Service. The USES would not place men in new jobs solely because they want more pay. Actually the order would deprive no man of his right to quit, but if he did quit be must look for work in nonwar industries, thereby losing his deferred draft status. In short: work or fight-and work where...
This Gun For Hire (Paramount) might have been designed for the carnage trade. A razor-edged melodrama, it possesses some of the most calculated killing to come out of Hollywood since the movies discovered gangsterdom in the early...
Girl students are uncommonly good looking. Possible reason is a jocular order which School Director Henry John Roesch gave the employment manager. "Hire me a lemon, Joe," said Roesch, "and out you go." Kitty McNulty, pert ex-stock girl training to become a junior inspector on aircraft, is a typical non-lemon. "I like this work a lot," says she, "because it keeps your mind awake...
Perennial, hay-whiskered, quid-chompin William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 72, onetime (1932-35) Governor of Oklahoma, announced himself a candidate for Senator, said he would make two or three speeches a day "if I receive donations for campaign expenses sufficient to hire a driver to carry me from place to place...