Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailed from New York Oct.1. She had been touring the U. S. in a Fanchon & Marco unit and while she was playing the Fox Theater in Brooklyn she was taken out of the show by the immigration officers. The unit still had about ten weeks to run before her contract...
...subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest...
...became famed suddenly in Miami last winter when he rode 27 winners in 16 days. Trainer James Fitzsimmons of the Wheatley Stables, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac Handicap with Dark Secret. Jockeys seldom worry about their weight until they are 20 or more. Small, pink-faced...
...closest rival this season has been a sloe-eyed Italian urchin, one year younger and six pounds lighter. He, Jockey Sylvio Coucci of New York, had a success at Agua Caliente a year ago. The Greentree Stables, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, bought Jockey Coucci's contract from the Coburn Brothers (John and George), onetime racehorse owning partners of Jack Dempsey. His record with 835 mounts this year has been 161 winners, 143 seconds. He has won only twelve important stakes this season, to Mills's 18, but Coucci's twelve were worth more money...
...taken over by City National were Central Republic's burdensome leases (most of which can now be cancelled), its "bills payable," nor its trust and real estate business. Both of the latter will be handled by the new bank on a contract basis, may perhaps be worked out at a profit for Central Republic's shareholders. But last week "Dawes Bank, Old'' stock sold...