Word: contract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...break was caused by a combination of ill feeling and opposing interpretations of the Triangular Agreement between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the present estrangement is laid to the fact that Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 at Harvard will agree to resumption only on the short-term dual contract which is the basis of Harvard's relations with all colleges but Yale; while on the other hand, Dr. Charles W. Kennedy, Chairman of the Faculty Board of Athletic Control at Princeton, desires that relations be resumed on the basis of the old "Big Three" agreement, with Yale...
First the House dealt with a bill by South Dakota's Representative Johnson to liberalize government aid and compensation to veterans. Its prime provision was that a veteran taken ill before Jan. 1, 1925, should be presumed to have contracted his disability as a result of the War and should thus be entitled to compensation. Not satisfied with this 90 million dollar per year liberality by the U. S., Mississippi's Congressman Rankin proposed that the presumption date be advanced to Jan. 1, 1930, whipped the House into a lather of sentimental excitement about War veterans...
...reply, Chicago's City Treasurer Charles Simeon Peterson, one of the Good-Will Tourists, told the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce: "I authorized the opening of bids for the first building of the World's Fair. . . . This contract when signed will call for the erection of a $350,000 Administration building. . . . first unit of a $4,000,000 program we will execute in 1930." Admitting that Chicago spends $30,000,000 yearly on liquor, half of which is in bribes and pay for professional assassins, he announced that the city is only 39th in the U. S. Census Bureau's murder...
Paramount on Parade. This is one of those elaborate miscellanies with which the big production companies utilize the spare time of the stars on contract to them. It is an unusually good one-rapid, handsome, brightened with flashes of wit probably put in by Elsie Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William...
Significance. United acquires NAT'S contract airmail routes between New York, Chicago and Dallas. Joined with its own Boeing lines, operating between Chicago and San Francisco, United now controls a complete (and unique) transcontinental system, and the largest total system in the U. S. passenger service is soon to be inaugurated on the New York-Chicago division...