Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reorganize its demoralized police department, Phoenix, Ariz, last March hired on a go-day contract Brig. General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington, D. C. police chief, made famed by his tactful handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. Last week frank, efficient General Glassford finished his tour of duty, reported on his discoveries about Phoenix vice in an extraordinary letter to the city's officials, ministers and social service clubs. Excerpts...
...Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing up audience reaction, Universal decided to make John Q. Dohp a regular feature of its newsreels, gave David Oliver a new contract for $100 a week for photography but forgot to include in the contract any lien on his services as an actor...
Last month Pickford-Lasky applied to Washington for permission. to offer two million dollars worth of stock in their new company. They have two stars under contract (Francis Lederer and Nino Martini) plan four more pictures this year...
...Manhattan, William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory...
...being charged on the term bill. But the letter that was sent to commuters in February, asking them to come to Dudley Hall and "renew" their membership for the second semester, could well give rise to misunderstanding. You don't ask a person to come renew a contract when you're trying to collect an amount that is already owing under the original contract...