Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty Alfonso XIII. The shouting Deputies claim the franchise was illegal, that it was obtained only after a thumping bribe was slipped to "a high personage." Telefonica Nacional was given until Dec. 3 to file a formal protest. Granted in the days of Dictator Primo de Rivera, the franchise contract has been recognized by two succeeding governments including the present, which appointed a representative to the board. Premier Azana's supporters are eager for a few succinct answers from...
...hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would not do to break his record. The curtain call sounded and since it was the season's opening Mr. Gatti left his office, where he could have heard the opera through a wooden...
...Herbert Marshall has divided his time between the stages of London and Manhattan, where he has been seen in These Charming People, The High Road, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and last season, with his wife Edna Best, in There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she left to join her husband who was then in no special demand by the cinema. The situations of Edna Best and Herbert Marshall are now reversed. Last month he left Hollywood, whither he will soon return, to join his wife in the London cast...
Prices have slumped greatly since the summer of 1931 when bids on the Bridge were called for, and some specifications have been changed. New bids were solicited. Last week the contract for the spectacular job of fabricating and erecting the cable-work was awarded to John A. Roebling's Sons Co. (wire & cables) of Trenton. N. J. The winning Roebling bid was $5,885.000. It was only $31,000 below that of Columbia Steel Co. This greatly vexed United States Steel Corp. which had bought Columbia in the hope of getting more Pacific Coast business. Last week many a Californian...
...lapse of a year has brought disillusionment with it," Brailford declares, ". . .all this paralyzed enterprise, lowered demand end lessened buying power." Everyone is sitting tight and the working class is showing increasing irritation. Brailsford feels that these in control will continue to wait, letting things contract until the bottom is reached and all public debts have been completely reduced. Then at the World Economic Conference, they hope "to engineer a scheme of international inflation." Meanwhile wages drop lower and conditions become worse...