Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voyages. Duplicate information must be sent to Washington. Seamen call them "fink books," claim that they lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by the shipowners. If a seaman is an agitator or striker, all the line has to do is record the number of his book, then refuse ever to hire him again...
...President will ask Congress for a 1938 Relief appropriation later in the session and hopes to keep it within one and one half billions provided industry will really try to hire away the Government's Relief workers. He would also ask (and did this week) for $790,000,000 extra to carry Relief through next June bringing the total of Relief and Recovery expenditures for fiscal 1937 up to $2,956,000,000 -the Relief bill to a new high...
...Philadelphia Orchestra has always been famously friendly with Pianist-Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1920 it was the first U. S. organization to play his choral symphony The Bells. Blond-maned Leopold Stokowski used to hire Rachmaninoff often as guest soloist, liked to slap his back in public. In Philadelphia this season Stokowski led the orchestra through the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, later took it to New York (TIME, Nov. 23, 1936). When, after 17 years absence. The Bells was again heard last week in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under new Conductor Eugene Ormandy, contrived its return...
...Dean Lane & friends were to go before the Arizona Legislature to demand that Arizona, only State without a full-time health commissioner, employ one at once. Prompted by Critic Buck, Dean Lane was to urge further that each of Arizona's 14 counties and all its big cities hire full-time health officers, and that those authorities be empowered to deal peremptorily with water supply, sewage disposal and all other environmental health factors...
...person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...