Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry these policies out. Just who in hell do these physicists think they...
Voters in Madison. Wis. agreed-15,169 to 13,885-to authorize the city to hire cranky old (85) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a municipal auditorium and civic center. Chortled Wright, whose unorthodox and costly brainchildren of the past had set the city's officials to view him with alarm: "The people of Madison have demonstrated that politics...
...wise Father Francis Tucker, his American-born court chaplain, and often drops in for lunch at Tucker's modest rectory. If the autocratic approach seems called for, Rainier can summon that up as well, as a group of Communists found out when they recently tried to hire a hall for a meeting in Monaco. Prince Rainier outlawed all party demonstrations whatever...
Pudding shows have avoided unionized theaters, Littell said, because the stage Employees' Union requires a show to hire union stage hands and a supervisor...
Rogue Cop (M.G.M) is another Hollywood stab at realism in the manner of TV's Dragnet. Robert Taylor is a veteran city detective in the hire of a pair of grafty little Caesars (George Raft and Robert Simon). When Taylor's kid brother (Steve Forrest), an honest rookie cop, identifies a smalltime toughie who can betray Raft and Simon, Sergeant Taylor tries in vain to get the deal squared. Inevitably, the honest brother is bumped off, and the bad brother sees the light. With Janet Leigh's assistance, Taylor hunts down and rubs out the killers...