Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satisfied by a broiled lobster and steak dinner, Adams House revelers next Friday night will dance until two o'clock to the sophisticated swing music of Art Shaw and his Brunswick recording orchestra. Lovely and vivacious Dorothy Howe, at present under contract to M.G.M. in Hollywood will entertain guests with her singing, while Art Shaw himself will summon sweet and hot strains from his clarinet...
...tired than usual. Waiting by a telephone, she breathed: "I do, do hope they'll settle." They were her father, his United Mine Workers lieutenants and a committee of bituminous coal operators who, off & on since Feb. 17 in Manhattan, had been negotiating a new two-year working contract to replace the one expiring midnight March 31. That deadline had already passed without agreement as Kathryn Lewis talked, and in twelve States some 400,000 men had laid down their tools. On that first day they would have been idle anyway, for since 1898 miners have taken a holiday...
Though the Appalachian Conference contract is binding only in eight Appalachian States, the rest of the nation's operators customarily swing into line with...
Producer Le Roy, who had seen him in French pictures and on the stage of the little theatre which Actor Gravet and his wife run in Paris, persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...
...hire soloists, guest conductors. This season it easily met a $25,000 budget. Last week the Indianapolis Symphony announced its most ambitious plans to date. Old Conductor Schaefer will retire. Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of Boston's People's Symphony, will succeed him with a three-year contract, his reward for a sensational guest performance this winter. The orchestra plans 20 home concerts, 15 more on a Statewide tour...