Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator gets a salary. His clerks get a salary. But who gets more? Senators Reed and Pepper of Pennsylvania, and Copeland of New York asked for a larger allowance for clerk hire because they come from large states and have many letter-writing constituents. Senator Pepper declared that his salary was $7,500 a year, but that he had to spend $10,500 out of his own pocket to hire extra clerks. A resolution to assist the three unfortunate might have been promptly passed, had not Senator Willis of Ohio demanded that its benefits be extended to others with inflated...
Well may the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance have sung An Impressario's Life Is Not a Happy One. Because it isn't. He must hire and fire temperamentalists, must decide on policies, programs, productions, must superintend rehearsals and performances, must listen to "complaints," real and fancied, from inside and outside, from lower down and higher...
...Brien published his first book on the geographical and natural wonders to be found south of the equator, the number of his followers has been growing by leaps and bounds. One might say that it had almost become a fad for members of the idle plutocracy to hire sea-going vessels with a length of not more than fifty feet, and spend the chillier months cruising in southern waters. Not so very long ago, for example, three wags set out from New Haven, with their tongues in their cheeks, to discover a new and more ravishing type to feminine beauty...
...announced that the Shipping Board had finished with its plan of operating vessels through agents under the so-called MO4 contract (Managing Operators' contract No. 4). The Shipping Board was prepared to undertake direct operation ; it would group its 81 services into about a quarter as many lines and hire agents only to book passengers and load freight. The consolidation and inauguration of the plan would, he said, begin at once, being first applied to the five lines plying from the Atlantic coast to the United Kingdom...
...English company was criticized for filming Chu Chin Chow in Berlin. The company's reasons: with bankruptcy universal in Germany, modest hire brought strange Oriental animals from the Zoological Gardens, priceless Eastern objets d'art from the museums, plentiful extras...