Word: hires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Omahans who remembered 1925 realized that they must be getting old themselves. That year the American Legion had come to Omaha 50,000 strong. Fathers locked their daughters in at night; the telephone company had to hire special busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers or sudden noises behind...
...takes all day to get the band down and back and you have to give them two meals. You got to have a hall or a park. You got to worry about transportation of all the instruments which are a lot more than a jazz band. You got to hire a truck. You got to insure them instruments. Then you got workmen's compensation. It's a lot of headaches...
...North Carolina's stubborn Representative Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, loudly demanded simplification of income-tax returns. "Muley" Doughton, who had helped make things complicated for years, now snorted: he himself had had to hire a "tax expert" to help figure out his Sept. 15 return. But he cooled off; a new tax bill would take a long time...
News Bureau or Else. Washington newsmen wondered how stubborn Frank Gannett came to hire deceptively cherubic Cecil Dickson. The facts: at their first meeting Dickson, mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news...
Until recently musical circles considered it disgraceful for a composer to hire an orchestrator. In 1933, when Sigmund Romberg took some of the numbers Spialek had orchestrated for his Rose of France to Paris, Romberg copied off Spialek's orchestrations in his own handwriting for fear he would lose face with the French producers. But in show business, as elsewhere, there is a premium on speed and efficiency. And specialists not only orchestrate faster but better than most musicomedy composers. In the U.S. today only German-born Kurt Weill (The Beggar's Opera, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady...