Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month wait for an answer from the Foundation made it clear that if the program was going to hire more people, Leach couldn't wait for the grant to come through. Bundy took the risk for hiring Edward L. Katzenbach from Columbia. But Katzenbach wasn't enough. Leach needed both senior men in areas relative to defense study and young men to conduch research. He gambled and hired the men he felt necessary, guaranteeing the University that if the grand did not materialize he would pay the salaries of the new staff from his own pocket...
...jammed elevators and drugstores once or twice a day. Many executives even boast of serving better coffee than the cafe across the street. Says Vergil Finnell. a San Francisco coffee caterer: "A lot of companies now offer good, easy coffee as an inducement to the people they want to hire. It's become kind of a fringe benefit...
...doors of a theater in Fontainebleau, Poujade reminded them of their pledge to follow his orders: "See, my boys. Now you listen to Little Pierre!" He decreed that all must hand over their Deputies' salaries (about $600 a month) to his "national treasury." He strongly advised them to hire professionals to run their butcher shops, groceries, bakeries and other businesses back home, so they can devote full time to politics...
...made it certain that a crisis would arise," said Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s President Morgan B. Brainard Sr., who resigned from the board twelve months ago and unloaded substantial holdings of New Haven stock held by his company. Major stockholders, looking for a new president, tried to hire Werter S. Hackworth, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. Snorted Hackworth: "Too many commuters and too many headaches...
Instead, the New Haven board picked Boston Lawyer George Alpert, 57 (at $50,000 a year). No railroad man, Alpert had helped McGinnis win his 1954 proxy fight for control of the New Haven, became a director, has been studying ways to improve the road. He plans to hire an operating boss, said he would buy "a large number" of new diesel locomotives, boost maintenance outlays $3,000,000 in 1956, and run trains on time again. Said he: "Until proper service is accorded to the public, the investors are not entitled to a return on their investment...