Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts: in 1958, under Republican (and Protestant) Governor C. William O'Neill, Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe was asked to rule whether school boards could employ nuns to ease a grave teacher shortage. He ruled that they could indeed hire nuns (as they have been doing for 39 years), allow them to wear habits in class. Said Democratic (and Catholic) Governor Mike DiSalle, demanding an apology from Peale: "This matter has never been before...
...country, every workingman in the last eight years would have received $7,000 more than he has received." With a "really healthy rate of growth," the U.S. can have full employment, "pay for all the defenses this Administration says we can't afford," build the best schools and hire "the best-paid and best-trained teachers. If we're going to grow the way we should grow, we must adopt fiscal policies that will stimulate growth and not discourage...
...views on art, he testily wrote: "I suppose you think I am . . . interested in art. That is a mistake. I care nothing for art." If a visitor knocked at his door, he would yell, "Mr. Homer is not at home." Gradually, Homer became so isolated that he had to hire a local man to call on him each morning just to make sure he was still alive...
...five old friends to join him on a romantic, cross-country journey. Most of his companions had never been out of California, and Tyler wanted them to see the rest of the country, as he had in his pillow-plumping days. "When I called the Southern Pacific to hire a car," he recalled, "I guess they thought I was kind of goofy. When the man told me it would cost around $7,500, I told him, 'Fine. I'll send you a check for $8,500 in case it's any more...
...friends headed for San Francisco and home. The whole excursion will cost the old porter about $15,000. Said Tyler: "I've got enough money left over to last me the rest of my life. But if I hit the Sweepstakes again in October, I'll hire another car and come back...