Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent $22 to get a sandwich man to parade in front of the New York World with a sign reading HIRE JOE LIEBLING, but the city editor always went in & out the back way, and never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about...
...Hire. Where does Crisler get the specialists to make his system run? Like every other U.S. coach, he knows that Santa Claus doesn't leave them in his stocking every Christmas. Says Crisler: "I see nothing wrong with an alumnus helping a deserving athlete through college. What I object to is alumni who throw money into a kitty and say, 'Go out and get a football team...
...recent months things have not been going so smoothly. The Taft-Hartley Act, in a section aimed directly at Petrillo, banned payment of record royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
Judging from past experience, his legal vulnerability is not so great, Several years ago, on the inspiration of a similar Petrillo ban, Congress passed the Lea Bill, which forbade the forcing of a radio station licensee to hire any more employees than necessary for the running of his station. The Act was judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley...
Tricky Mix. Schary's tactics have paid off. Until he went to RKO, the chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income...