Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back in the old [Army] days," General Dwight D. Eisenhower told a Senate committee last month, "you had a tough job finding anyone in your division who could speak good English." Though the Army had never gone abroad to hire foreign mercenaries, it had long filled out its ranks with aliens living in the U.S. (In World War II, an honorable service record gave aliens citizenship in three years instead of five.) Last week, going a step further, the Defense Department announced that it would soon recruit 2,500 carefully screened displaced persons living in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...Arranged to hire New Zealand mercenaries...
...Sorry," says the athletic director. "I can't do anything for you. My job is to arrange the schedules, hire coaches and preside over the intramural program. But if you're looking for scholarship aid, the man you want to see is Dean Sturdley; if you're looking for exemptions on your admission requirements, the man you ought to see is Dean Wunderbar; and if you're looking for a job, we have a great student employment agency here, headed by John Q. Overture...
...Kempen conducted in The Netherlands during the occupation, a few times for the benefit of the Wehrmacht. Many a Dutchman found it hard to forgive that. The musicians warned that Van Kempen would be "a source of pain." Nevertheless, the Amsterdam town council voted, 21 to 17, to hire...
...Most big firms will hire men no matter what their draft status," said Alexander Clark, assistant director of the Student Placement Office, yesterday. "They expect that these men will return to them after their service, but small companies can't afford to take the chance...