Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania. While the President thus addressed all U. S. Labor, he was particularly mindful of 55,000 insubordinate Pennsylvania coal miners. These men had originally struck to force recognition of their union. United Mine Workers of America, by non-union operators. In the code and contract that became operative last week, the miners had won this objective. Their union chief had ordered them back to work, when they demanded something more: recognition of U. M. W. by the operators of "captive"' mines- those owned by the non-union steel industry. The steel men had agreed to give their miners...
...distinguish the colors of gay bait "only as various shades of grey, precisely as a color-blind person would." that fish can scarcely see anything below the level of their heads, that the pupils of fish eyes are almost always round, but never oval, that fish pupils contract only a little in strong light, that fish have no eyelids and no tears...
Long-legged Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, last week ended a disastrous year of amateur tennis. Last June, just before he lost his Wimbledon title, Professional William T. Tilden offered him a $100,000 contract if he won. Made dizzy by having lost so much money. Vines talked about it, brought on an investigation by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which finally cleared him of having done more than think about turning professional...
...Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took the $50,000 contract, abandoned U. S. amateur tennis. Bitterly chagrined were the other members of the Davis Cup team whose sagging chances of taking the Cup away from Britain next year sagged further with Vines's desertion...
...Yankees. Attendance was smallest in 15 years. From a total gate of $679,000 the players on both teams got $284,000, divided 60-40 between winners and losers. Each Giant player collected about $4,600, each Senator about $3.400. Manager William ("Memphis Bill") Terry got a five-year contract as player-manager at a rumored salary of $40,000 a year...