Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Most of them are handled most economically when handled in conjunction with other functions occurring almost simultaneously. Most of them are carried out most efficiently with the aid of the University business office. About all the Committee actually bothers itself with is the question of whether to hire a sweet or swing band for the Class Spread...
...impossible for C. I. O. to hire a hall in Jersey City, and C. I. O. organizers are simply run out of town. Last month, having given plenty of advance notice, a group of C. I. O. organizers attempted to enter the city, accompanied by reporters, photographers and observers from the Workers' Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting...
...When a president dies, hire a new office boy," is the pet maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide...
...brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
When Charles Knox started his gelatine works, he was too poor to hire a sales staff, did his own gelatine selling on the road as a sideline to selling gloves. But when he died in 1908 the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co, was in anything but prosperous state, for Charles Knox's idea of good gelatine promotion had been race horses wearing the Knox colors and primitive airships bearing the Knox name...