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Word: hirings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board asked Chaplain Talbott how he would react to several situations commonly encountered by service padres. Examples: 1) On a ship returning to port after several months at sea, the captain hands the chaplain $500, tells him when they land to hire a place for a dance, get an orchestra, plenty of beer, see that the sailors have a good time. 2) On a ship returning to port after a long stretch of duty, the commanding officer tells the chaplain that when the men land some will want to see women; he orders the chaplain to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One Less Chaplain | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...rise from a poor real-estate speculator to financier. In Work and Play he sets about divorcing his wife (and ex-secretary). He also gets mixed up, to his embarrassment, with architects, interior decorators and his private secretary, backs a play for his mistress and tries to hire politically ambitious Jerphanion as his secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction's Maignot Line | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...president of the Class B Wilmington (Del.) Blue Rocks and from his father's longtime friendship with Connie Mack. As welcome in the Phillies' office as a 4-F infield, he promised to try to build a real team, to set up a farm system and to hire a general manager (out standing candidate: Herb Pennock, ex-Yankee pitcher and present Boston Red Sox farm director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Odds for the Phillies | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...unionism. The American Society of Civil Engineers, meeting in Atlanta, voted to recommend that its local branches set up collective-bargaining committees to negotiate salaries for their members (90% are eligible to join other unions). The local committees will be independent of the national organization but the Society will hire four experienced "field representatives" to advise them on organizing and bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Engineers, Unite! | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Osaka-born Schuichi Kusaka (TIME, Sept. 20) has my vote for a permanent position at Smith College, or any other institution that has the foresight to hire him-and I'm being trained to shoot, stab or chop Tojo's men first and talk afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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