Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble Insurance. Lewis, it turned out, had run Yonkers Raceway as though he owned it. The management meekly agreed to hire hoodlums and ex-convicts brought in by Lewis and ignored the state law requiring sworn affidavits outlining their backgrounds. In the three years that Yonkers Raceway has been operating, the management also shelled out $165,000 to four labor "troubleshooters." The payoffs were made to prevent "labor disturbances" which might close the track...
Fingers for Death. When Dr. Rock's own assistant accuses him of hiring murderers, Rock intones: "I need bodies. They brought bodies. I pay for what I need. I do not hire murderers." To his wife he is able to report: "I am full of bliss, like a cat on the tiles of heaven...
...sleek, pastel-walled villas favored by the moneyed musius (as Venezuelans call foreigners, from monsieur), is one of the sights of South America. To staff such places and sustain the pace of entertainment, some of the hard-trading, hard-drinking men who keep the dance of the Bs going hire two or three housemaids, a cook, a chauffeur, a butler and a gardener. (Average cook's wage: about...
...aging (74), onetime Democratic New Deal stalwart (who broke with the national party to support Ike last year) was nettled by a new clause in contracts between the Government and banks which make Government-guaranteed farm price-support loans. The clause would require these banks to hire employees without race discrimination. Egged on by bankers, Byrnes telephoned President Eisenhower in Denver. Said Byrnes: "I talked with the President ... he does not want departments of the Government to usurp the powers of Congress or by executive fiat to interfere with the business practices of citizens when there is no law authorizing...
Corporate Maze. The dodge used by many foreigners to acquire U.S. ships was to hire U.S. nationals to form a dummy corporation to bid for the vessels. The foreigners would provide the money indirectly, by putting up the collateral for loans which banks would then make to the dummy. After getting title to the ships, the dummy would then lease them to the foreigners at ridiculously low rates-so little that the dummy would never make enough money to incur U.S. taxes. Instead, all the profits would flow to the foreign operators and the true ownership would still be concealed...