Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effective, must contain a minimum wage scale to prevent proportionate pay cuts collided with this stubborn fact: once the District of Columbia had a minimum wage law which in 1923 the Supreme Court annulled on the ground that it violated a citizen's constitutional privilege to contract for his own services at his own price...
Tibbett's Metropolitan Opera audition got him a $60-a-week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his entrances and exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing...
...with the winner to meet Sharkey for the title. This prospect seemed drab because 1) Sharkey has already beaten Camera, 2) it would seem improper for Schaaf to fight his own comanager. As a preliminary step toward straightening out the difficulty, Manager Buckley last week agreed to cancel his contract with Schaaf...
Much of the discussion accorded last night's announcement will doubtless center around the terms of the arrangement, which comprise merely a two-year contract on a home-and-home basis, and emphasis will be placed on the diplomatic manouevres since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have...
...price until last week, when it signed up the Boston Symphony for ten Saturday night concerts beginning New Year's Eve. The fee was not disclosed but the Boston Symphony badly needs whatever it can get. Boston's band has never been offered a sizeable radio contract before. To help meet this season's deficit, which without N. B. C.'s help would have run to some $93,000, Conductor Sergei Koussevitsky and his non-union orchestra (only one in the U. S.) lately offered to turn back $46,000 from their salaries...