Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result. But in virtually none of the cases was anything accomplished by the loyalty boards, with their mass of rules and regulations and their fumbling procedures, that could not have been done by an individual bureaucrat with a modicum of common sense and the simple right to hire and fire in the interests of national security. And a great deal of time and money, not to mention human agony and governmental dignity, could have been saved...
Every year, the 210 families of Temple Avodah. a Reformed Jewish congregation in Oceanside, L.I., had managed to hire a professional cantor for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (in 1955 it falls on Sept. 16-18), even if they had to be content with their temple choir on other holy days. This year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew...
...Tommy Corcoran, O'Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back to New York to handle CBS's real-estate program. Now ex-Medical Student O'Shea hopes to breathe new life into Hollywood...
...seasonal businesses or industries carry the GAW load? What if public taste veers away from goods produced by some outfit which has a GAW setup? Then, too, there is the fear, expressed by many who doubt the feasibility of GAW, that it will operate chiefly to impel employers to hire as few workers as they can. Certainly guaranteed annual wages for workers are fine, if feasible...
Once formally "adopted" by the local party, a candidate is by law required to hire a campaign agent who, for a set fee of $210, assumes responsibility for running the campaign, lining up volunteer workers, and keeping a stern eye on every ha'penny...