Word: hired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatal tot he cause of American democracy, almost a majority have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...
Nightclubs do not usually hire other people's halls to give public concerts, but last week one of them-Manhattan's "Cafe Society"-did exactly that. It hired Carnegie Hall. And it was the first time that nightclub entertainers had tried their hands so publicly on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert. The concert's label, "From Bach to Boogie-Woogie," accurately covered the efforts of the Negro Societarians...
There are two means which the industrialist can employ to crush labor, the professor said. One way is to hire strike-breakers to "crack the workers' skulls." The other way is to pass a law outlawing strikes...
...Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces by inarticulate musicians (sample: Child of a Disordered Brain for an Earl Hines piano number) and looks for sellers. To make two versions of Star-Dust...
...official gave them 40 rubles, entered it on his books as a payment for old-age pensions. They were given papers bearing a GPU stamp, so no machine shop dared to hire them. Instead, they got work shoveling earth on a railway grade...