Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ostensibly staged, got $250,000. Of the remainder, some $400,000 went to promoters Bernard C. McGuire & Theodore G. Miller of the Moose "propagation Department," $200,000 was refunded in prizes, $173,000 went to Moose Davis, the balance to local and national Moose organizations. Promoter Miller's contract to arrange the brotherhood's lottery-balls was signed, he testified, "with the approval and knowledge of the Supreme Council and Director General Davis...
...paved roads, 6,000 mi. of new gravel roads. He built the $5,000,000 State Capitol, the $150,000 executive mansion, the State University's $1,500,000 School of Medicine at New Orleans. Thanks to him, twelve new bridges are about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town...
...Most of this debt rests upon private contract. The Government cannot reach the problem by legislation. The initiative must come from the great insurance and mortgage companies. It may not seem ideal but such things are done with corporate indebtedness. This situation is so serious and the future of the country so involved that it should and can be accomplished. ... I assert . . . that these debts cannot be paid as they stand...
...flopped into bankruptcy (TIME, Sept. 5). David Albert Schulte a few weeks ago hinted that his chain of cigar stores would do the same thing unless landlords showed leniency. To the U. S. citizen, distinguished from the U. S. corporation, bankruptcy is not an acceptable way of cancelling a contract. During the year many a lease-saddled citizen has gone to his landlord, obtained a reduction. Others have anxiously awaited the lease's expiration, ready to haggle for a lower price or to move. Oct. 1, traditional moving day in a score of cities, will see many...
...boosters has been Soprano Frances Alda. Three winters ago when most important singers were half-apologetic about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...