Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children as a girl laborer. The strain was too great for her. The eldest daughter had to be sent to Tochigi Prefecture as a woman of ill fame. She had to become a geisha last year and in May last spring she had to serve on a 4-year contract for a loan on 1,500 yen. At that time only 1 yen remained in her mother's hands...
Much more extraordinary than the West formula has been its success. Dubious Paramount executives two years ago allowed her a contract for a percentage of her pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of declining like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making...
...gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy...
...partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made any money. The sixth, The Devil Is a Woman, is notable chiefly because, since Director von Sternberg's contract has not been renewed, it terminates this unfortunate alliance by illustrating its disadvantages even more strikingly than its predecessors...
...years San Francisco went through a winter without a symphony orchestra. The Musical Association was unable to raise funds sufficient even for the promised twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...