Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back. It was nonetheless a victory, for the Department of Justice, for the vigorous anti-Nazi elements in Sterling's management, and for their mentor, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, who (as Sterling's counsel) worked out the deal. It also patterned one method by which U.S. corporations can cancel German contracts without subjecting themselves to stockholders' suits...
...were at war with Germany, Sterling could have canceled this contract, ceased being Farben's sales stooge in Latin America. But without a state of war, Sterling officers would be liable to lawsuits, unable to plead "legal impossibility." The value of the contract has been estimated as high as $100,000,000. Since both Sterling Chairman William Weiss and President Albert Diebold are multimillionaires, they were in no position to cancel the contract...
...series, and to adjure George Brent not to go around explaining why he wouldn't marry bouncy Ann Sheridan. Promptly CBS censors decided the items were on the dubious side, suggested he toss them out of his script. Thereupon Fidler asked his sponsor, the Tayton Co. (cosmetics), to cancel his contract so that he could betake himself to the more liberal mikes of Mutual...
...depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations."), the tasks in which FORTUNE'S editors say the U.S. is failing are themselves unnecessary. Unpredictable developments in the war may reduce the urgency on which the editors insist-the Germans and the Russians may cancel each other out more than they believe possible; the turns and twists of modern war may change the U.S. picture as much as it has changed Russia's or Britain...
There was many an awkward delay before the U.S.S. West Point finally got away. In San Francisco, 2,570 miles away, debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said...