Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music was a possible $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of the land, Caesar ruled that Chicago's station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent, should double its uncomplaining staff of three record librarians. When the station demurred, Caesar informed the three union members that they were henceforth on strike...
...Hire expert staff assistants to research complex legislative proposals and free Congressmen from routine office tasks...
Yale had already taken on 60 new faculty members, plans to hire several hundred more, to give itself a record faculty of 1,200. More important, it had done some thinking about housing. How Yale hopes to work the September miracle...
Caesar's demands were clear and simple. He merely wanted studios to give musicians a 100% salary increase, thus guaranteeing an annual salary of $10,400 for a ten-hour week. He also wanted them to hire 720 musicians instead of the 235 regularly employed under the terms of his old contract. If a sound track was transferred from 35 mm. film to 16 mm. film, the musicians were to be paid all over again...
...Church of England's Commission on Evangelism wanted to hire an advertising agency. Some argued that church-going should be put across with the kind of bang-up press and poster campaign that makes a cathartic into a national habit. Canon Marcus Knight of St. Paul's Cathedral was not enthusiastic. Observed the Canon at a Commission meeting: "There would be a real danger of having a portly bishop sitting on a Noah's Ark in a stormy sea, with a slogan, 'The Church of England prevents that sinking feeling...