Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Wrigley was no slave to his desk. Once when he was asked to be in his office to sign an important contract, he cried, "The hell with it, the Giants are in town," hurried off to the ball park. He seldom missed a game. For several months of every year he went to Catalina Island, 12 mi. off the coast of California, which he had bought in 1919 for $2,000,000, and of which he had made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix...
...year ago, G. K. Sauerwein, University engineer, explained that Mayor Russell of Cambridge asked the cooperation of the University in supplying heat for the school building now under construction, to prevent an expensive outlay of new tunnels. The Corporation and President Lowell approved a proposed three party contract, by the terms of which city authorities would purchase at cost from the University heat which it had in turn bought from the Cambridge Electric Light Company...
Political perversity in extreme form is evident in Representative Reardon's resolution to investigate Harvard's proposed contract to sell steam to the Rindge School. But plots return to plague the inventors, and the Representative's extraordinary ardor for preventing Harvard's undreamed aspirations to become a power trust will effect his own reputation rather than the University...
...heat to the City of Cambridge and such other corporations that it may so propose to do, and to determine that it's engaging in such business is beyound the powers of it's charter." This bill refers to the fact that Mayor Russell of Cambridge is seeking a contract with the University to buy heat for use in the Rindge Technical School. Harvard has not yet signed any such contract, but the matter is under consideration, it was learned last night...
...week, the Bennett Case, rarely discussed" on sports pages, had become a cause celebre. Clubowners were afraid that, if the matter reached the U. S. Supreme Court, the fundamental rule of baseball, which makes players chattels of clubowners, would be found illegal. If illegal, any player dissatisfied with his contract could desert his job, negotiate for employment elsewhere. Under these circumstances, rich clubs could buy up all the best players, organized baseball would soon fall to pieces...