Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished. Because in childhood an astrologer warned against sea voyages, Composer Lehar, 60, will not travel to California for the recording. No novice at singing, Gloria Swanson has studied intermittently since her Chicago schooldays. Only when Mack Sennett offered her a cinema contract and a wardrobe of bathing suits did she definitely abandon the idea of a concert career...
...figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait, Mrs. Brooks-Aten had entered upon a new and separate contract in returning the picture to him for changes. The jury decided that she had so done. They awarded Painter Brush $1,750 of his claim...
...chaotic. The Government had no money on hand for its work; the foreign obligations were a tangled mess, and a complete reorganization necessarily was decided upon. A new national bank was formed and given the privilege of coining money and carrying out the Treasury functions of the Government. The contract between the Haitians and the bank provided that disputes were to be settled by arbitration and that there was to be no diplomatic intervention. The bank was originally a French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise" and declared...
...stage again. Very soon she was unfaithful to him. simple-minded Coke suspecting nothing. Regan saw what was going on, tried to warn Coke; they drifted apart. Once when Regan was drunk he spoke out; Coke knocked him down. Then they were enemies : Regan tore up their contract, coached Rattler O'Keefe to take Coke's title away from...
More and more do U. S. citizens demand news of the many foreigners to whom, since the War, they have become commercially and politically attached through treaty, tract and contract. So that their readers might have more intelligence of what happens beyond the sea, many a U. S. newspaper and press bureau has recently augmented its foreign service...