Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...
...summarize the Committee's conclusions, Harvard University should recruit and continue to recruit its faculty from men of diverse views, especially in fields in which scholars of repute are in disagreement on fundamental issues. The selection of its staff should, provided men of high intellectual capacity be found, include those whose views may be not only academically unconventional, but distasteful to the general public to the business community, to alumni or to any other group...
...Emerson, however, jumped into politics with both feet last week as the final balloting on the society's insurance question took place. Anti-New Deal Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett gave a dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to recruit members for his National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and asked Dr. Emerson to speak. About 75 prominent Manhattan physicians were invited to come and bring as guests four of their wealthiest or most influential patients. The committee solicited money from doctors and friends, promised in return to work for the defeat of the "dangerous, menacing" Wagner bill...
Although the omission of any civil service reform in the new Reorganization Bill indicates the tentacles of the spoils system are still strong, the recent tendency to recruit more university students for permanent political jobs is encouraging. New positions are now available to men with a regular four year college training in the Social Sciences or in Public Administration. And, even more important, examinations for entrance into the service are now more closely correlated to the educational system. Such steps as these make it evident that the government now recognizes the need for a greater reservoir of expert opinion...
...quarreling among themselves. Out of jealousy, the caravan captain ruthlessly abandons a middleaged, kindly schoolteacher in the desert. But he is efficient, and he does not, like many another captain, abandon women and the sick because they cannot keep up. The romance between Nancy Ann and a hard-muscled "recruit" picked up along the way is as earthy-gritty as their food during a dust storm...