Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...card game are usually obliged to lean over the contestants' shoulders, to snoop stupidly around the table. Because spectators are apt to make revealing exclamations, they are regarded as a nuisance and scornfully called kibitzers (Yiddish colloquial term). Not so were spectators at a game of contract bridge played last week in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt by four experts, under the auspices of the recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators...
...last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first profit ever shown by a major air service operated without mail contract or subsidy, a profit made in the face of a virtual axiom that no line could make money in passenger business alone...
Editor Sheba's story: Herndon & Pangborn were under contract with North American Newspaper Alliance whose client, Tokyo Nichi-Nichi, had bought the rights to their story. The contract made it improper for the flyers to compete for the Asahi's prize, but the Asahi made persistent overtures nonetheless. Each paper feared that the other would win the flyers as proteges. Hence, when the government officials showed hostility toward the men for entering Japan without a permit and flying over fortified zones, each paper seized the opportunity to destroy the flyers' value to the opposition. Both alighted heavily...
...good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight...
...thought he was getting a bargain. Though the Panchen Lama speaks only Tibetan, knows less Chinese than most U. S. missionaries, he is the only person in China allowed to use imperial yellow since the downfall of the monarchy. When he arrived in Peiping recently to sign his contract, he was received with royal honors by President Chiang and his northern ally Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, waited on hand & foot by Mongol princes who ordinarily have no traffic with Chinese republicans or any of their fiestas...