Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
...Tijerīno; then purported to explain the nature of the "loan contract." He alleged that a 1,000,000 credit was set up in Manhattan on which the Nicaraguan Government pays 6% annual interest, plus a 1% commission interest on the whole amount, whether any of the credit be withdrawn...
...recalled last week to Manhattan newsgatherers the fl, 1,000,000 loan negotiated between the present Nicaraguan Government (upheld by U. S. marines) and the Manhattan firms of J. &. W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. (TIME, May 16). Said Señor Tijerīno: "The loan contract was entered into with the knowledge and approval of the State Department of the United States...
...very careful study of the [loan] contract, reveals that it does not in the least deal with a straight loan at all. In other words, the bankers are not lending Nicaragua one red penny of their money...