Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mold and flask to contract strongly...
...popped Mrs. Mackay indignantly not in the least indisposed. Nor was she, as the New York Daily News suggested, suddenly so eager to string popcorn for the Mackay Christmas tree in Roslyn, L. I., that she had renounced a $4,000 contract. Her Roxy program, she said, had been all arranged. She had planned to sing Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay...
...last two years $2,670,939 had been paid to a partnership composed of Irving Grant Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer and J. Robert Rubin, dominant officers in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's producing subsidiary, not as a bonus but as their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange but a 20% interest in MGM's potential profits. Though the two other concerns were losing...
When Sir Frederick and his lady came to town they were promptly pursued to the Barbour home by newshawks. There the newsmen were told that Sir Frederick was under contract not to give interviews before his address two nights hence. Under contract to whom? To the Cincinnati chapter of the English-Speaking Union, headed by social-leading President Joseph Spencer Graydon...
...whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there would be a snow-storm of literature telling them how much money they would make by investing in Mr. Insull's securities. I hadn't even signed my contract before my mail was simply flooded with Insull securities literature...