Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three members of the Supreme Council, including onetime Mayor William F. Broening of Baltimore, appeared to testify that neither the council nor Moose Davis had any cognizance of Promoter McGuire's contract. Case for the defense was that although almost every other Moose in the country was aware of the lottery, Moose Davis was in total ignorance. True, he had attended a banquet and personally presented lottery profits to Mooseheart, but he did not necessarily know whence the money came. True, a consignment of lottery tickets had reached his Pittsburgh office, but Moose Davis was rarely there. Since 1930, when...
John Guthrie Sutherland submitted to arrest, climbed into a third-class carriage, went to Brighton, got his contract. In police court he was fined ?12 ($41.50 current exchange) for needlessly nagging a train...
...right, all right." said John Guthrie Sutherland. "I'd do it again. That contract was worth...
...York Yankees' first baseman since 1925. is a heavyset, stolid young man and one of the few professional baseballers who plays on a home town team. His Teutonic mother & father were caretakers at a Columbia fraternity house. Son Lou went to Columbia, played on the ball team, signed a contract with the Yankees. Babe Ruth coached him in batting: in a year or two Gehrig was, next to Ruth, the hardest hitter in the most potent batting machine baseball had ever know:n. In 1927, Gehrig was voted most valuable player in the American League. He batted in nine runs...
...rarely do doctors contract the diseases they treat that Dr. Walter Blair Stewart's attack of infantile paralysis last week was news. Dr. Stewart. 34. had charge of the infantile paralysis cases in Atlantic City's Municipal Hospital for contagious diseases. The institution has been crowded by the epidemic (now waning) which visited Philadelphia & vicinity (TIME, Sept. 12). Two of Dr. Stewart's three children-Blair, 3, and Florence. 18 months-caught the disease, are recovering with no observable permanent stigmata. Dr. Stewart, overworked, lost resistance and last week went to bed with infantile paralysis. Probably...