Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the U. S. Supreme Court killed it. The venerable Justice Van Devanter wrote the decision: "Such a system infringes the liberty of contract and rights of property guaranteed by the due process of law clause of the 14th Amendment." [A citizen shall not be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process...
...little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
...Patten Inc. submitted to Mr. Woolley a contract for advertising. Said he: "I never sign contracts, but I agree to the terms." Van Patten Inc. claims that the contract, verbally agreed to, called for $60,000. Counsel for the Democrats claim that is absurd, as Mr. Woolley's total appropriation for all publicity was only...
...suggested in well-informed circles that the Bolshevik Government annulled the concession on the ground that the U. S. had not been induced to recognize Russia; but, not being willing to cancel the contract on this ground, a technical reason was found. Whatever the cause of the Russian Government's action, it at least provided an object lesson to others of the difficulty of dealing with an unrecognized government...
Waking Up the Town. A story circulated recently to the effect that Norma Shearer has signed a long contract with Goldwyn which will eventually net her $1,000 a day. Miss Shearer is a fairly good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...