Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telefonica Safe. The heavy, heavy threat that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...
...Personnel Department, having filled all the positions at its command with those applicants best qualified, communicates with the remaining applicants on its lists and advises them that they would be unwise to register in the University unless their financial position improves sufficiently to carry the expenses they will inevitably contract. There is nothing, however, to prevent these individuals from ignoring the advice of the Department and entering the Freshman Class in the vague hope that money will turn up somewhere...
...evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract bridge be the most exciting of pastimes. The New York Herald-Tribune...
...ever regarded either at the mill or among his friends as "a bitter, hard man." Like all Roeblings, he was exceedingly reticent. But he had a fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining old chap I ever heard of. He did contract caisson fever while building the Brooklyn Bridge, and was an invalid for upwards of 50 years. In the last 18 years of his life he had the companionship of a most devoted wife (his second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair...
...officials plan to stand squarely on their legal rights, point out that nearly one-third of Telefonica National's stock is held in Spain. (I. T. & T.'s investment in Spanish telephones is about $65,000,000.) Thoughtful Spaniards argue that repudiation of the contract would injure Spanish credit, might cause exclusion of Spanish wines from the hoped-for U. S. market...