Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State such as New York where a married woman enjoys all rights of contract...
...joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned from Germany. And able Otto Klemperer was ousted from the Berlin State Opera where he had a contract until...
Until last year the Brothers Drake held a contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their...
...between a banker's agreement to take a company's securities and the resale to the public) no banker would make a "firm" deal with a company. The banker would become merely a distributive agent for the corporation's securities- i. e. the banker would not contract to supply a corporation with cash...
...night I had what I call a goodish night for me. 12.30 a. m. to about 2.55 a. m. Then about 3.15 a. m. to 5.45 a. m. Then a few short snoozes, totalling perhaps 40 minutes at the very most. In all 5½ hours." In 1926 he "contracted" with himself to write 365,000 words during the year-an average of 1,000 words a day-fulfilled the contract by December 20. Whenever his ideas gave out he would go for an "idea-gathering"' walk, through the shopping district of London, to picture galleries or churches. Frank...