Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Investors who buy foreign bonds appreciate what a fruitless remedy for breach of contract war is. Who is there if a man owes him money and cannot pay, finds profit in going out and killing the debtor...
...There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons. John McGovern was dragged off to jail, charged with "threatening violence to the lieges and committing a breach of the peace...
With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
...looked like him was assassinated. Devious and romantic. Father Tacchi-Venturi has busied himself with the highest diplomacy for the past two months. Last week his aims seemed to be nearly accomplished. A new accord was about to be reached between Italy and the Papal State to close the breach which occurred last May (TIME, June...
...Suit and countersuit between Gillette Safety Razor Co. and United Cigar Stores Co. were settled out of court last week. Gillette had charged that United had exaggerated its ability to sell razors and blades, claimed $10,000,000 damages were due. United brought a $7,000,000 countersuit for breach of contract. The extra-legal settlement provided for a $1,900,000 payment by Gillette and the resumption of business relations. But existing contracts are cancelled. At the end of last year Gillette had $4,212,000 in cash...