Word: hire
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...next March, and I don't intend to go broke gracefully." The outlook for almost 600 Star employees, including 100 editorial staffers, was dark. Some of them grumbled that Roberts should have found a buyer who would keep the paper going. The P-D promised to hire "some, but not many"; the rest would leave with severance...
Voluntary Servitude. In Auburn, Ind., after De Kalb County's six council members thumbed down his request for funds to hire a new deputy, Sheriff Frank Carpenter dropped in at each official's home, issued each man a badge and equipment, soon had six deputies ready to serve at no cost to the county...
Jess Larson, the Government's top housekeeper (title: General Services Administrator), rolled up to Capitol Hill in an old car to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. His most startling statistic: the 46 executive departments of the U.S. Government (not including Defense) operate 19,888 passenger cars, hire 1,380 full-time and 5,672 part-time chauffeurs. Commented Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson (who owns his own Pontiac, no chauffeur): "All the Senators are getting embarrassed by the number of large chauffeur-driven cars that pass them on the street...
...closing I must compliment the Advocate business board for procuring a lush three page Anti-Vivisection advertisement (which must have done the coffers a lot of good through it rather disfigures the back pages of the magazine). Perhaps the editors will use the profits to hire a professional proof-reader next year...
...opportunities in the eight weeks of summer school are limited, Holt stated, since industries mostly want to hire full-instead of part-time employees. There will still be the usual baby-sitting, restaurant, and hotel jobs...