Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article opens with a reference to Yale's contract with the Atlantic Refining Company for the sale of football broadcasting rights, saying that this act brought out into the open the whole question of professionalism. The next step is judged to be the direct payment of players by the oil company...
...delegation of Russian aeronautic engineers. Roosevelt, Fokker & friends worked up a telegraphic code in which the President was "Rochelle," Elliott "New Rochelle," military "industrial," Amtorg Trading Corp. "Ruyork," Moscow "Mosely" etc. After the Russians balked at the price (nearly $58,000 per plane, without motors, etc.), the contract was canceled though Elliott Roosevelt was allowed to retain the first $5,000 down payment. The Bureau of Internal Revenue wrote Fokker that Son Elliott denied having received the $5,000, saying that Stratton had received it. Herbert Reed, an associate of Fokker, declared that Stratton had approached him to recover...
...contract was canceled and returned to me. I never received a penny from Fokker for myself. I never acted for Fokker in any such sales. The contract, which subsequently was canceled, had provided specifically that I should not be requested by Fokker or any of his representatives to contact any representative of a European government or of the United States government...
That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...
...they talked for 90 minutes in the President's office. Only report of the conference was a cautious joint statement by Messrs. Willkie and McNinch which committed neither side to anything but further discussion, suggested that meantime TVA and Commonwealth & Southern might agree to extend their current nonaggression contract. Though doubts, reasonable in view of Franklin Roosevelt's longtime enmity to Private Power, were expressed as to how Iong past election day his conciliatory sentiments might last, at least a start had been made toward solution of a momentous problem...