Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the President also: ¶ Signed a bill giving $10 million to keep the Defense Production Administration running until the Congress gets around to passing the regular appropriation. ¶ Tightened up the loyalty standards for Government jobs by making it possible to dismiss or refuse to hire an employee for "reasonable doubt" of loyalty instead of requiring reasonable evidence of disloyalty...
...worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...
...religious view without representing a particular sect, or even a particular religion. The CRIMSON might as well have asked for a man who represents the economic view and not any particular sect, on the grounds that it would be "an imposition on the free student" if the College hired a Socialist or a Keynesian. But a real imposition on the free student would be to refuse to hire someone because he was ordained. In any field a man who believes in one theory can still present the other side. Moreover, a man who believes in something will have something...
...second point, we agree that there is an analogy between economic and religion. Just as the University does not hire an economics professor because he advocates a certain way of thinking, so it should not hire a minister to teach a class because he advocates a certain religion. We feel the criterion for selection in both cases should be knowledge of the field...
...phases of our national life. Government and its activities are, in a very real sense, a mirror of our national life . . . our colleges, under extreme pressure from the alumni, have become so intent upon winning football and basketball games that they use any means to gain their ends. They hire players who are not bona fide students . . . They corrupt not only the hired players but also the entire student body, who learn from their elders the cynical, immoral doctrine that one must win at all costs...