Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigations, a committee headed by Dwight W. Morrow made recommendations last December for more and better aviation-principally: 1) That peacetime activities be put under a Bureau of Air Navigation headed by an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce; that the U. S. Air Mail Service be extended, preferably by contract. 2) That an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation be created; that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken in the Navy Department...
...that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated "a most solemn contract," two of the companies being headed by the lessee of Judge Lazzelle's property...
...mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying the new route that day were blown astray. Partridge is believed to have had no parachute. Colonel Charles M. Dickinson, president of the Aero Club of Illinois, the body that has the Government contract for the new route, was reported as having blamed Partridge's death on "a law just passed by Congress levying fines on pilots late with their mail." Col. Dickinson was either misquoted or mistaken. No such law exists...
...perhaps pardonable to mistake for an abiding spirituality that enlightened fear which secures credit and maintains the sanctity of contract. One might even pass over the intrepidity of an attempted explanation of American economic history in terms of a mysterious religious instinct that inheres in residence on this continent. But the unabashed hardihood of justifying the whole past and present of American industrialism by making it one with the deepest spiritual feelings of the people--especially at a time when that industrialism has just flowered in one of the most insidious assaults on democratic government that our history records--ought...
...they burst in upon his parents at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., announced their secret marriage at Putnam, Conn., on the eve of her departure for Europe to confer with Max Reinhardt respecting future roles, Morris Gest having reputedly offered her a ten-year contract. Her husband will remain in the U. S., will row at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia...