Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts, hire the men, buy the materials, do the public work, convert the slump into a boom...
Maurice Holland, director of the National Research Council's division of engineering and industrial research, published his Industrial Explorers (Harper's, $3), describing the work of 19 scientists who lead the industrial research of companies smart enough to hire them...
...field bench. Judge Fuchs is not a professional, not even an able, baseball player. Even if he were, he is too good-natured and kindly to subdue curt umpires and angry, ignorant players. For him to be a manager was absurd and astonishing; he admitted that he would hire Johnny Evers, once a famed player, to be his assistant manager...
Take Me Home. When a comedy is weak there are three things a director can do to make it better: 1) keep the star changing her costumes; 2) have her fall down a lot; 3) hire a funny subtitle writer. In this routine picture of a chorus girl in love with a country boy, Bebe Daniels gets no mud on her clothes although all other devices for bolstering the plot are liberally used. Onetime chorine Lilyan Tashman, as the musical comedy star who leads Rube Neil Hamilton to her Fifth Avenue house, acts better than Miss Daniels...
...ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions...