Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money?or lack of it. The Doctor, then 38, had served the U. S. State Department as a routine drafter of official documents and later as an investigator of oil lands for the U. S. Foreign Trade Bureau. Then and there (1922) he signed at Washington, D. C., a contract vesting in him the whole administrative authority over Persian state finance...
...event overshadowing others in the Far East occurred last week at Teheran, when the Government of Persia extended for a sixth year the contract retaining Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as Administrator-General of Persian Finance...
...powerful trilogy of forces ceaselessly exert themselves to oust the bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly...
...Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame U. S. opinion by the discharge of Dr. Millspaugh. Recently the Doctor's dismissal has again been rumored; but the extension of his contract last week, seemed to augur that Persians are beginning to value at true weight his ponderous and growing achievement...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided...