Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the first time that House Masters have appointed members of the Student Council. The new procedure was promulgated in a Council report last spring, and is intended to recruit new members with "popularly unrecognized talent." Each appointment is subject to ratification by the House Committee...
...liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism training or not. But I think most papers have come to depend on journalism schools to recruit their help." Even such a salty old-schooler as the Detroit Times's City Editor Jim Trainor concedes: "Journalism school won't hurt a good smart...
...paid) workers, who make up 85% of the U.S. union membership. But in the total U.S. working force, the blue-collars were outnumbered by white-collar workers (25 million to 25.5 million) by 1957, and the trend was accelerated by the recession. Unions have had comparatively little success in recruiting the new army of technical and service workers. If it does not recruit them, says Kassalow, "organized labor would be lucky to maintain its present membership of 17 or 18 million over the next decade. It would then become a very diminished minority...
...would grant two. (The Teamsters already have $3,000,000 invested in fancy Miami Beach real estate and plan to double the sum.) He announced plans to organize employees of Sears, Roebuck and of Tampa breweries. Then came Jimmy's bombshell: he had already begun a campaign to recruit the millions of state, county and municipal employees across the land-including the police...
...professionalism by having professional parents, and businessmen are raised from childhood to take over father's business. But in our highly complex society this system is inadequate, because successful people do not have enough intelligent children to replenish the ever growing technocracy. As a result the society must recruit part of its responsible and talented elite from the unelite...