Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways of enlarging...
...seriously questions that veterans deserve special consideration in obtaining Government jobs. But veterans' preference laws today have been so superimposed on the civil service system that . . . when it comes time to hire Government employees, there is no way of making sure that the best-qualified people are chosen. In fact, veterans who have demonstrated their incompetence by failing civil service tests can move ahead of competent nonveterans through the addition of preference points . . . Recruiting becomes harder as fewer ambitious, able people apply for federal jobs...
...were desperate. They had concluded that Shirley simply could not handle the role. They were chiefly upset by her stock-company approach to rehearsals: she merely walked through the part, mumbling her lines. Tearing their hair, Inge and Mann begged the Theatre Guild to get rid of Shirley and hire Joan Blondell in her place. Then, on the fourth day, Shirley was suddenly "off the book." She began playing with such intensity and finesse that Inge and Mann hastily changed their minds. In Westport, Sheba was a hit. Theater people poured up from Manhattan to shout bravos at the leading...
After Princeton, Stockly took on odd jobs, including a stint in a steel-mill, while pestering Pittsburgh newspapers to hire him. Finally, the Sun-Telegraph agreed to give him a job if he would work a trial month without salary. Stockly agreed, and after a month he was on the payroll at $30 a week. Eleven months later, he was off the payroll with the editor's prediction that he would never become a writer...
Highhanded Stand. It was a shrewd if highhanded stand; by long precedent the chairmen of Senate committees do hire and fire employees. But it is also understood that they get the consent of other members. Aware of this, Fighting Joe backpedaled a step or two: he agreed to drop Matthews, in return for the promise of Michigan's Republican Senator Charles E. Potter to go along with McCarthy's claim to sole control over committee employees. That got all three Republicans back on McCarthy's side again...