Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
...girl students, Ted Healy and stooges prance energetically through the proceedings. Finally the leal Baron and then Pearl's Aunt Sophie arrive and thoroughly expose the impostors. Miss Pitts, inconsolable, finds her hero is a pants-presser but follows Pearl anyway - and he is offered a fabulous radio contract. The picture ends with Manager Durante, in a state of wild-eyed, concentrated insanity, dickering with the radio agent about imaginary contract quibbles...
Adolf Hitler repudiated his Berlin State Opera contract which had four more years to run (TIME, June 19). Fortunately for Klemperer and for Los Angeles. William Andrews Clark Jr. was aware of the big German's capabilities. Mr. Clark had supported the Los Angeles Orchestra for 14 years on the copper fortune left him by his father, the late fierce-whiskered Senator from Montana. Last spring he announced that he could do so for only one more season. Klemperer needed a job; Los Angeles needed a strong conductor to build up public subscriptions...
Goodyear's President Paul Weeks Litchfield was not particularly alarmed by the Commission's complaint. "The manufacture of special brand merchandise for large distributors is a common practice in most lines of manufacturing and merchandising," he remarked. "However, this Goodyear-Sears contract has for several years been the subject of a great deal of publicity and the objective of an anti-mail-order campaign directed at our dealer organization. We welcome this opportunity to have the facts aired and settled once and for all. . . . When the case comes up for hearing we expect to prove that...
...also be gradual up to a certain point, demanding and receiving from a prosperous capitalism a number of concessions both important and valuable. But these concessions can endure only so long as the capitalists can grant them without injury to themselves, and when their economic structure threatens to contract, the privileges won by long decades of agitation must be withdrawn...