Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's election machinery that he could conceivably perpetuate himself and his henchmen in power indefinitely (TIME, Aug. 27). Uneasy on his throne, the Kingfish last month summoned his Legislators again, put through 44 more bills in the constitutional minimum of five days. After that he could hire & fire local police and firemen throughout the State, fix utility rates, impose property taxes, run the State Bar Association, let any of his hillbilly supporters off from paying their debts for two years. Last week Senator Long piped his Legislators back to Baton Rouge for their third special session, had them...
...believed last week that he had definitely retired from the U. S. musical scene. Stokowski at 52 is as ambitious and hard-working as he was in his twenties when he played the organ in St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, saved his money so that he could hire orchestras abroad and start building up his fame as a conductor...
President Angell's attack on subsidized football in today's football program comes at a significant time. A little less than a year ago small groups of alumni were sending enraged protests to the Athletic Association and demanding an outside coach. But the A.A., convinced that to hire a professional, outside coach would eventually prove inconsistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship ideals, adopted a compromise plan in which a Yale graduate head coach was supported by non-graduates...
...arguments adduced by the President are not sufficient to dissuade football fans from a policy of hired athletes, there are other arguments that might be mentioned. From a strictly financial standpoint, the attempt to subsidize football is essentially short-sighted. Big-time professional football has been constantly gaining in popularity; if collegiate football descends to the same plane it will soon be finished. There is not reason to believe that university officials could hire better football teams than could professional promoters. As a result of professional team superiority, no one would bother particularly about the so-called intercollegiate games...
That historic event was foreshadowed last spring when the venerable Committee on Publicity was uprooted and a onetime managing editor of the Wall Street Journal was made a member. Not until last week, however, did the Governors hire a pressagent. He was Joseph Stagg Lawrence, 38, author, economist and an associate editor of the Review of Reviews...