Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Brack Lee's trail was littered with the bones of sacred cows. Early this year, he flatly refused state funds to hire more help for veterans' affairs, although he was a World War I infantryman himself. "I favor all help possible to injured veterans," said he, "but veterans who returned without physical or mental damage should deem it a privilege to have served their country, to say nothing of the experience and travel they gained...
...trained a force of 8,764 supervisors, but had given examinations to each of the 140,000 enumerators and had put them through four days of training. It had printed a million maps which showed boundaries, streets and houses in more than 200,000 districts. It had prepared to hire 8,500 people to tot up the results...
...customs and herded into a "bare, stinking stable ground" for lodging. Instantly, a horde of Moslem peddlers descended, offering "rushes and branches of trees to lay on the ground . . . water of roses . . . balsam . . . musk ..." Young Arabs so annoyed the pilgrims with their pilfering that the pilgrims were forced to hire watchmen to keep the intruders...
Dorgan actually started his attack when the Conference first met last year. He said that "a great University like Harvard should not hire men who are supposed to be Americans and who associate with Communists." Then last Monday he said that "President Conant should tell Shapley be does not belong...
...second place an hour symphony concert admits at most only three spots for commercials, as opposed to the limitless advertising time on a half hour show such as the Hit Parade. Third, the radio station, and hence the sponsor, has to pay more to hire a large orchestra than it does to employ a smaller group...