Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement of America to bring the Irish people together...
...Charles E. Rochester as manager and by 1936 had upped annual gross operating revenues from $74,000 to $400,000. Last June when the Montclair was offered for sale, Hitz and a group of friends proceeded to buy it for $3,000,000. Thereupon, Hotel Lexington, Inc. canceled its contract with N. H. M. Manager Rochester quit Hitz to continue as the Lexington's manager. Ralph Hitz has not spoken to Charles Rochester since...
Most of the 20,000,000 people in the U. S. whom the American Contract Bridge Association likes to think of as bridge players would not dream of saying "pass" when their partners have begun by bidding two in any suit. That interesting fact is due solely to 14 years of unceasing agitation by Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, who are to contract bridge exactly what Henry Ford is to motoring. They practically invented it and they have made a fortune...
...contract bridge replaced auction and auction players became hopelessly confused by contract's elaborate mathematics, more and more people turned to Mr. Culbertson for instruction. In 1930 the Culbertsons were taken in hand by Manhattan Pressagent Benjamin Sonnenberg, and before long they had their pictures in the papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel...
...attend school lest they infect other little girls with vaginitis. Fortnight ago Director William Freeman Snow of the American Social Hygiene Association collated data to show that in the nation there are 200,000 children known to be similarly infected. Actually the cause of vaginitis is gonorrhea which children contract usually by contact with their older sisters or mothers. Dr. Snow hoped that by publishing his statistics he might arouse the U. S. to a new sector of the venereal front now under attack by public health authorities...