Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bounty for each hijacker killed. While Mayor Louie Welch said he had "no objection" to the idea of the squads, Short ordered his men not to moonlight for Wilson-though they may still take such part-time jobs as saloon bouncers. "Houston police," Short declared, "do not hire out as executioners for anybody...
Long-Standing Pleas. Short's ban on police participation in the shotgun squads forced the detective agency to hire retired cops, and the private security force that started at 70 now numbers fewer than 50 men. Nonetheless, the vigilantes have already earned their keep. Their presence has forced the city government to reconsider long-standing pleas to increase the size of the regular police force. And in the first three weeks after the guards had been hired, the three dry-cleaning chains suffered not a single robbery...
...bootleg drug shop is a relatively simple matter. Machines to compress, count and package tablets can be bought secondhand from salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently respectable business...
...representative of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination met yesterday with Coop general Manager John Morrill and other Coop officials to review the progress of the Coop's efforts to hire more Negroes...
...when I got the axe at Pencey Prep. I mean he's really irresponsible. My Aunt Nina wants him to be a Disraeli or something, but Joe's ambition is to be a khutmul Mao. If you must know, that's a person rich Hindus hire to lie in their beds at home while they go on holiday so the bedbugs will have somebody to bite. Joe's a terrific liar, so you never know when he's kidding around. I mean he's a madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things...