Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictment was not the only source of worry last week for tall, grey Henry Cabaud. In Washington the Post Office Department's investigation of ocean mail contracts was pointing a long inquisitorial finger at the subsidy which enabled the Ward Line to build the Morro Castle and her sister ship Oriente at a $10,000,000 cost. Because the company was alleged to have received from the Government to date $6,000,000 more under the contract system than it would have received under the proposed poundage rate. Postmaster General Farley seemed certain to recommend cancellation of contracts. Such action...
More embarrassing than the mail contract investigation was the revelation that the Ward Line had made a profit of more than a quarter of a million dollars out of the Morro Castle burning. This it was enabled to do by collecting $4,186,000 insurance for the vessel against a book value of only $3,923,000. The company pointed out that it had paid $2,737,745 of the insurance money to the U. S. Shipping Board against notes outstanding, that it was customary to carry high insurance on vessels to cover losses...
...rickety impersonation of Jeeter. After he had played 30 weeks in the part, Universal snatched him off to Hollywood. Then James Barton, a song-&-dance man making his first legitimate appearance, took over the rôle (TIME, July 2). After 22 weeks, Hollywood bagged him too, with a contract from RKO. On the night of its 437th performance James Bell (The Last Mile) last week stepped into the lead of a play that. by now, has become a national institution...
...part of the game, but all were forced to remain at their stations even when trade was at its lightest. In some cases, it was reported that professionals were imported to take the place of students, thereby violating the pledge of the company, when it was given the contract...
That idiotic question was the beginning of one of vaudeville's characteristically fabulous success stories. Second-rate Comedian Joe Penner, born Joseph Pinta at Nadgybeck Kereck, Hungary, became almost immediately a first-rate comedian. He got a tour with Paramount Publix stage shows, a contract for 15 Warner Brothers shorts. In the course of the next two years, he had two more inspirations: 1) "You nasty man!" 2) "Don't never do that!" By 1933, all three had become household slogans. Because of his radio popularity, Joe Penner's weekly salary jumped from...