Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were to be lured there, seduced by roulette or poulette, and their defense secrets extracted...
...Francisco, where many hospital staff members fell sick. Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger asked for a $7,500 appropriation to hire substitutes, ordered postponement of all operations except for emergencies...
...banker's standards, the present charge on student loans is unjustifiable. It is calculated to yield profits--profits that swell the endowed loan funds, and also the revolving funds as far as losses through defaults are covered. Harvard does not milk its needy students to erect fancy laboratories and hire costly lecturers. But it holds its debtors responsible for building up its loan funds--a function that should be left exclusively to the donors of the future. At present, there is no shortage of loanable money; and considerable surplus margins are left over each year, particularly in the graduate schools...
...purpose of the Bureau is two-fold. It attempts, first, to help members of the community who are too poor to hire a regular attorney in those cases where they need his services; and, secondly, to give law students the training which even so large a law school as Harvard cannot pretend to furnish...
...Carnegie Hall, bigger and costlier to hire...