Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as the Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them to do'. . . . [From this, some have drawn the unwarranted inference] that he was willing...
...hire a few "able" flappers, too? They might set you back $25 a week, but they would be worth it on top of a Fifth Avenue bus in warm weather, and around hotel lobbies during the winter...
Newsstand-buyer Conn's suggestion is at variance with the public good and therefore will not be considered by TIME. If each and every one of the 25,000 periodicals in the U. S. should hire six old men, four old ladies and three "able" flappers to ride perpetually between Bowling Green and Brooklyn Bridge "reading conspicuously," the New York subway would become congested...
...acre of wheat for $8. The Government standard for efficiency is $16.50. Following his example, he says all farming should be done by great corporations. Great corporations can get credit from banks which view the "farmer" with alarm. Great corporations can develop new inventions,* can watch markets, can hire the efficient and fire the inefficient...
...term "White Elephant" originated, as Siamese know, from the practice of the ancient Siamese kings in presenting to courtiers whom they wished to ruin a white and therefore sacred elephant, the upkeep of which, including the hire of hundreds of attendants, was enough to bankrupt any man of modest fortune...