Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type" had been used for bachelors since the 13th Century, but went out of circulation about 1890 when the country was flooded with the "old-type," which are now cheaper to hire...
...this activity is scheduling interviews for students with representatives sent to the College by the large national corporations. These companies are frankly in search of outstanding men and to find twenty trainees may visit twenty or more colleges. Such a company recruiting at Harvard may interview thirty men and hire only two. It is true, under these circumstances, that the "upper tenth" stand the best chance of employment...
Frequent visitor to Mickey and the Pankeys is Mom's ex-husband, Mickey's father, Joe Yule, with whom Mickey sometimes goes to the fights. Mickey had little trouble persuading MGM to hire his father for pictures after Joe Yule had been hoofing at a downtown Los Angeles burlesque house, billed as "See Mickey Rooney's Father." By hiring his father, the studio also hoped to end Mickey's backstage visits to the burlesque house...
...Japan went to war, when the Navy let itself be sucked into the battle of Shanghai, when the Panay was bombed. He is said to have torpedoed an open military alliance with Germany last year with the remark: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor. It is not for hire by Hitler, or anyone else...
Although John S. Parker '41, president of Pudding theatricals, could not be reached for a statement last night, it was learned that union walkouts had been threatened if the Pudding does not hire a union orchestra for its annual show...