Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally, Sullivan filed his bill merely as a warning to Massachusetts schools and colleges not to hire faculty members affiliated with the Communist Party. He was not insistent upon the bill's passage in the legislature...
...Rice & Faith. Mao Tse-tung was born (1893) in Shao Shan, Hunan Province, where for years his world was the rice paddy, the village school, and his father's cane. Old Mao was a fanner, prosperous enough to hire a laborer. Unlike many another farm lad who later followed him, and died for the rice and the faith he offered, young Mao never knew hunger. Nor did he know abundance. Once every month, old Mao would give his farmhand eggs with his rice, but no meat. Recalls Mao: "To me, he gave neither eggs nor meat...
Editor & Publisher Parton planned to merge the Shopping News with his seven other papers, call the new paper the Los Angeles Independent. He also set out to hire 50 newsmen and 150 ad salesmen. They will put out 10 to 15 semiweekly "sub-editions," in effect, community giveaways, for the major communities of Los Angeles. All the papers will have some features (fashions, movies, music, cartoons, etc.) in common. Los Angeles newsmen guessed that 36-year-old Parton's eventual aim, if the Independent succeeded, would be a citywide daily...
...Payoff. Capital, too, proved worthy of its hire. Net profits for the year were an estimated $21 billion, compared to $17.4 billion the year before. (Industry's slice of the national pie was still slightly smaller than its record in 1929.) Though some of this profit was fictitious, i.e., a profit on inventory rather than actual sales, many an industry had done so well that even a drop in profits next year would leave it well off. As one businessman put it: "Our earnings have been superduper. From now on they'll be merely super...
...Dining Hall authorities. Is the central purpose of the Dining Hall department to keep its hierarchy happy--or to serve the best possible food to undergraduates? And no one brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know-how to attempt a thorough investigation. His proposal that a group of non-University experts do the job was quite pertinent, but this sensible...