Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through such automatic dismissal, Perry said, universities would virtually turn over to government their authority to hire and fire. "Even when individuals have been convicted of a crime, or have given offense to public sentiment, the institution must decide, in each case, whether this disqualifies him from serving the institution," he said...
...very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched...
Hack McGraw subscribes to his father's theory that his "editors must be part of industry before they can be part of the publishing business," would rather hire an engineer and teach him to write than try to make an engineer out of a writer...
...employees had been invited to be "fired" and pick up checks for accumulated leave. Then, immediately, they were rehired for the same old jobs on a temporary basis. Later, all were restored to the permanent rolls with a second bonus for leave earned while on temporary service. The fire-hire racket cost the taxpayers...
...Acting on this tip, Williams inquired around the Pentagon and found evidence of the unique bonus system. In 1947, an official directive had gone down to 5,685 civilian employees of the Army's Antilles Department, Caribbean Defense Command, authorizing them to dip into the fire-hire bonanza. Nearly 40%-2,114 employees-accepted, collected substantial leave checks, went right on working. The cost: at least...