Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discharged from that debt upon payment dollar for dollar in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public or private debts. More simply stated, it means: That under the former value of money, the $100,000,000,000 of outstanding gold clause contracts call for the debt to be paid at the old rate of 25.8 grains of gold to the dollar, whereas the new dollar contains only 15 5-21 grains of gold. All five creditors sue in common cause declaring that their contracts call for repayment "in gold coin...
...European junket. Last week it filed a 254-page report containing 102 suggestions which President Roosevelt sent to Congress with a short, lukewarm message. It was painfully apparent to the six Commissioners that the President was much less interested in their findings now that public feeling over the airmail contract cancellations had subsided than he was a year ago when he solemnly launched them on their labors. Noncommittal was he in his message to Congress on such Commission recommendations as the following...
...Procurement of military aircraft by negotiated contract where competitive bidding would mean undesirable delay...
...Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features Syndicate...
...tied hand and foot to that duck now. I can't get away from it. I've tried to break my contract, and I've even threatened to take it to the Supreme Court, but it doesn't do any good. I have to keep on advertising for that duck company, or they'll sue we. Every time one duck falls off the train, they send me another one. And the ducks don't have any sense of propriety. They don't send me any males, only females, and the last one I had laid a batch of eggs...