Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget, bringing the total appropriation for operating expenses to within only $6,000,000 of what Quesada asked. Chances for the revised bill's passage : excellent. The restoration gives Quesada virtually all he wanted, means that he will have the money to set up air controls, hire the men to man radar stations...
...military government, one incentive in moving is to get away from the business lobbies and commercial interests that tempted the old regimes, and from the street mobs that they were able to hire for slogan-shouting marches on the legislature. The new inland capital, 100 miles east of the Khyber Pass, will also be a scant 35 miles from Rawalpindi-headquarters of the Pakistan army...
Rising to his feet in the Senate last week, Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas took out after the Pentagon and its defense contractors. Said Douglas: "The system of defense procurement has led to great abuse. And when companies hire former officers to negotiate with their former fellow officers, the abuses are magnified." With that, Douglas released figures showing that 88 of the nation's 100 top contractors employed no fewer than 721 ex-officers with the rank of colonel and up. Douglas said darkly that there is grave suspicion that many of these men were hired as influence peddlers...
...Repeatedly urged persons in charge of UN employment to hire a "notorious communist agent" in 1945, "in spite of the fact that there
Bunker further pointed out that Bunche had, according to a Senate probe, "repeatedly pressured persons in charge of UN employment to hire a notorious Communist agent." Another member of the Veritas Committee, Kenneth D. Robertson '29, said there is "no question" that the loyalty board which cleared Bunche of subversive charges was "the object of intense Communist pressure...