Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month. It expired last week as Vice President Lasky sat day after day squabbling with Vice President Sam Katz. What Mr. Katz did not say was that Mr. Lasky was no longer wanted in Paramount. What Mr. Lasky did say was, "Because of Paramount's action on a contract with me [running until 1934], I have felt it necessary to sever relations." He declared he would produce independently...
...Katz became stronger in Paramount. Lasky and Zukor lost caste but Zukor kept his figurehead presidency. Lasky's last ace was his long-term contract, said to give him $9,000 a week. The final squabbles evidently concerned the cost of buying in this gold-plated contract. Before he left on his leave of absence, Lasky had given Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument...
Before the Board of Estimate over which the Mayor presides came a contract for printing ballots for this week's municipal primary. Martin B. Brown Printing & Binding Co. bid $114,760 for the job, Burland Printing Co., $65,000. The Brown concern, long a Tammany favorite, had won practically all city printing contracts for years. The Tammany-controlled Board of Elections recommended that it get this one too, despite the high bid, on the ground that the Burland Company was not equipped to turn out work fast enough...
...shall refuse to vote to give this contract to other than the low bidder," announced Mayor McKee, "The Burland Company has been doing election work for the State as intricate as the work the city requires. Fifty thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. There's a wholly unjustifiable monopoly on city printing and so far as I'm concerned it is ended...
Seven Tammany votes on the Board lined up automatically for the Brown bid. But Mayor McKee mustered nine against its printing monopoly and the contract went to Burland. Savings...