Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flanking it are 4,000 and 6,500-seat theatres, one for pictures, one for vaudeville (several of the studios in the tower may be turned into additional "intimate" theatres) ; and greatly to the surprise of last week's reporters, there is completely planned but not yet under contract a building for the Metropolitan Opera. In the centre of the development is an open plaza, to north and south are identical 45-story office buildings. Because of the mass of theatrical traffic, it was originally planned that the entire subterrain of the development would be used for parking space...
...Paul Block, who is said to have bid $10,000,000 for the Sunday and morning Worlds last August, rushed from the Pacific Coast into court to raise Publisher Howard's best bid by $500.000. But presently he withdrew, having, he said, just learned of the Scripps-Howard contract and the effort of the Worlds' employes. This brought from Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for the employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William Randolph Hearst, and that his precipitate withdrawal was due to connivance with Publisher Howard, that the latter would transfer to Hearst the morning...
...suggestions of employe purchase or operation of the World, Publisher Howard replied, with sympathy but with a finality that surprised many people: "Impossible." He knew something few outsiders knew: International Paper Co. held a contract by which the World was bound to buy $3,500,000 worth of paper each year for ten years...
...made news by demanding a drink from the musical director of Vita-phone Co., for whom she was to record The Barcarole. She drank too much, spoiled the record; the musical director was discharged (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week when she sued Pathe Studios, Inc. for breach of contract to make sound cinemas, Pathe explained: "Miss Lewis became intoxicated and involved in a scandal." Hearing about these charges in Paris, Mary Lewis protested: "Im a good girl! I've never been...
President Strotz was chagrined when Madison Square Garden, with connivance from its Chicago allies, euchred him out of the Schmeling-Stribling world's title fistfight contract (TIME, Jan. 26). But he and his up-&-doing backers-who include his smiling, big stockbroking brother Harold-vow not soon again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...