Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, explained what Negro leaders mean when they talk about equality in job opportunities: "Now we're saying this: if two men, one Negro and one white, are equally qualified for a job, hire the Negro." Actually, Negroes may already be doing even better than that in the Federal Government. A Texas Congressman charged that three Negro postal employees in Dallas had been promoted over 53 whites with higher civil service ratings...
...Southern Railway's management noted that in the company's contract with the firemen there was no clause saying that the Southern had to hire men to replace firemen who died, retired or quit. So, for more than three years, Southern hired no new firemen. The union, preoccupied with its national struggle, did not go to court about the Southern until last September. After an involved wrangle, the union obtained a federal court decision requiring the Southern to abide by the old rule-a fireman on every diesel-until the dispute is decided by the National Railroad Adjustment...
...ambassador was visibly agitated. In a swirl of cigarette smoke, he pondered a diplomatic crisis: another ambassador was trying to hire away his cook. How could he thwart this act of piracy without causing an international incident? Baffled, he called his secretary through the intercom. "Get me the Dean," he said. "Tell him it's important...
...segregationist Mississippi law forbids Negro state colleges to hire white teachers. Last week Moses Hadas, the famed Columbia University classicist, slipped around the law without ever leaving Manhattan. Picking up the telephone, he lectured for an hour through his luxuriant white beard to 500 rapt students at four Negro colleges in Louisiana and Mississippi. His subject: the religious roots of Greek drama. The phone bill was $100, a pittance paid by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which thus demonstrated one of education's cheapest, handiest new ideas...
Died. David Ellington Snodgrass, 68, peppery dean of San Francisco's Hastings College of Law who took on the rundown school in 1940, made it a policy to hire only teachers older than 65, snagged so many sprightly deans emeriti forced out of other schools by retirement rules that Hastings today rates as one of the country's top law schools; following heart surgery; in San Francisco...