Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consideration of evidence, the court acquitted Mrs. Pollak. For several moments she remained dumbly in her chair because she had not grasped the meaning of the word "acquitted." Later she found her tongue, declared: "Judge Fisher is a nice man. He looked at it sensibly." Then she signed a contract to appear for three weeks at the State-Congress Theatre in burlesque at $1,000 a week. Cousin Victoria Schultz got only $250 a week...
...Despite the difficulties of our job our relations with the Soviet Government were always excellent. During the whole five years neither side needed to resort to the arbitration clause of the contract...
...enough for matrimony. She refused to try to have her marriage annulled, ended it by divorce after 17 months. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blane, are cinemactresses. Loretta Young got her first job when a director called up Polly Ann. Under five-year contract to First National, she has had increasingly important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet Man, Play Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness...
...Caton drove Tsar Nicholas' trotters, won the Moscow Derby eight times and the Grand Prix at Paris in 1902. He set a record by driving one of the Tsar's horses, Trostee, over a mile of ice in 2:08 at Moscow. In 1912 he signed a contract with Vladmir Lezhneff, a Russian sportsman who paid him 10,000 roubles a year and 15% of his winnings, which sometimes brought Will Caton's yearly earnings to $50,000. In 1917 Will Caton tried to escape the revolution via Japan. He was captured at Omsk, put in charge...
...start to market Sept. 1 at the rate of 62,500 bags a month. Bartered for wheat, this coffee shows the Farm Board a paper profit of $4,000,000. At the instance of coffee roasters the Farm Board last week started negotiations with Brazil to modify the contract to permit larger monthly sales...