Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court could suppress any regulatory experiments by Congress of which it disapproved. In the hands of the Supreme Court the 5th Amendment wrecked an effort to establish a minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia, on the ground that such a law violated "liberty of contract." Likewise zoning laws were annulled because they unconstitutionally deprived owners of the free use of their property. To circumvent this "due process" clause Congress, whose attempt to stamp out child labor by taxation was invalidated by the Supreme Court, submitted to the States the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution.* Many...
...After prolonged bickering, Herr Lubitsch last week signed a new contract with Paramount. He will make three pictures next year, one with Chevalier...
...automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed and was purchased by Henry Ford, with an alleged agreement that the 2.400 stock-holders would be partially reimbursed. Though Henry Leland on the stockholders behalf sued Henry Ford for $6,000,000, the courts refused to recognize the verbal contract...
...season was about to start was provided by a long-anticipated ceremony in St. Petersburg, Fla. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, near-beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees, conferred with his most celebrated employe, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth. After much palaver and publicity, Ruth signed a one-year contract for $75,000. Then he tossed a half-dollar into an imitation Spanish wishing well and went to play in a practice game against the Boston Braves, in which he failed to make...
...Sims was chagrined at being ranked second last week, he could console himself by remembering that most bridge players still consider him, year in, year out, the best player in the U. S.; that he has won more contract championships than anyone else; that last fortnight David Burnstine dedicated a book (One-Over-One?Walter J. Black, Inc., $1), in which he explained the Four Horsemen's bidding systems, to "P. Hal Sims . . . Master card player of the world. . . ." To Sidney Lenz and Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt, who played in a few tournaments last year, and a dozen others, Shepard...