Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock are now part of a trust fund administered for Mr. Brown by the Toledo Trust Co.). In Manhattan Mr. Brown promptly told the Press that 95% of his IMM stock was bought before he became Postmaster. He added: "During my service in the Post Office Department no mail contract was awarded to the International Mercantile Marine Co." But a onetime Department of Commerce employe swore that he could not remember when IMM had ever failed to get a contract it asked...
...Brown was alleged to have promised an ocean mail contract to the Philadelphia Mail Steamship Co. in which the Pennsylvania Railroad (225 shares of whose stock and 150 shares of Pennroad Corp. were listed among Mr. Brown's holdings) was interested provided a Senate resolution to hold up the contract was postponed. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania thereupon filibustered the Senate resolution to death last March so the bid could be opened and the award made. But the contract fell through because the steamship company had no ships...
Costs of printing and engraving the 1934 class album will be approximately the same as last year, under a contract to be signed with the Andover Press, it was announced yesterday by David Weld '34, chairman of the Album Committee. The price of the albums will be $8 until March...
...when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public parks, chasing starlings (see p. 14) but skilled workers repairing public buildings, women as social workers and dishwashers, actors doing plays for schoolchildren, contract bridge experts teaching the U. S. their game, chemists working at Johns Hopkins to eliminate carbon monoxide fumes from automobiles, and artists decorating public buildings would on that date lose their places on the Federal payroll...
...while they didn't recognize me during my four months as President is easily explained. The whole trouble was that I didn't pay interest on the Cuban debt to the Chase National Bank of New York City, my reason being that I considered theirs an illegal contract made by the [ousted] Tyrant [of Cuba] Machado" (TIME...