Word: employment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of presenting a repertory of plays, not unified in being of one type or by one author, which both these companies employ, has grown immensely in favor during recent years. Perhaps its most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest...
Last week he tried again, this time remarking, with carefully prepared smirks and innuendos, that members of the Wilson Cabinet had entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny after leaving office; that Senator Walsh had praised Oilman Doheny when the latter gave advice on the legislation that made the Oil Scandal possible...
Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
...order to alleviate the situation in her secondary school it seems that England must employ new methods for awarding scholarships in the transition of her educational hierarchy. Character and general merit might at least be taken into consideration as regards a proportion of the students, while the joint authorities of both the primary and secondary schools could profitably unite in making out the examination for the rest of the students. The best children from every point of view should be given preference over those who merely have superficial preparation. American colleges through experience could recommend this policy...