Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Manager Robert W. Healy had indicated that he planned to hire attorney to contest Sherman's order. Sherman has scheduled another bearing in the case of Poldnak's Cambridge Rent Control Board for tomorrow...
...being echoed in Congress, but members are divided on what should be done. Senators Kennedy and Quayle defend their $4 billion jobs program bill as sufficiently different from the much criticized CETA program to make it worthwhile. Their bill would forbid local governments to use the federal funds to hire their own employees, such as policemen or firemen. Local businesses would also have a say in setting up job-training programs, thus ensuring that prospective employees were not trained in skills that were no longer in demand...
...Inquirer, which has an editorial staff of 330 and eight national and foreign bureaus, is planning a major expansion in the wake of the Bulletin's closing. New bureaus will be opened in Boston, New Orleans, Cairo, Nairobi, New Delhi and London, and Roberts plans to hire at least 50 new reporters and editors, many from the Bulletin. Says he: "We feel that the Bulletin's death puts a rather awesome responsibility on us as a survivor to see that coverage in the area doesn't suffer...
...coming of winter-and it was to reach a Siberian 23 below zero in Seminole, Texas-inspired Hopkins to an unheard-of extravagance. Why, he asked Roosevelt at a White House lunch in October 1933, couldn't the Federal Government simply hire the unemployed for the winter at all kinds of part-time jobs that needed doing, such as repairing roads or teaching the illiterate or simply raking leaves? How many jobs would be feasible, asked the President. Hopkins made a quick guess: 4 million. "Let's see," said Roosevelt, "4 million people-that means roughly $400 million...
...different from Hopkins' organization in purpose and style was the Public Works Administration, operated by Harold Ickes, the cigar-waving and curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, who was determined to make every dollar produce an honest dollar's worth of Government building. He refused, he said, "to hire grown men to chase tumbleweeds on windy days." In six years Ickes spent $6 billion and created, among other things, New York's Triborough Bridge, the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, the Chicago sewage system, the port facilities of Brownsville, Texas, and 70% of the nation...