Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, in 1954, President Dave Kapp of Kapp Records heard Williams play in the cocktail lounge of Manhattan's Madison Hotel. Kapp signed him to the contract that led to Autumn Leaves, his first hit record. That was the end of classics and jazz-and spaghetti. Williams' sole, simple ambition since then has been "to be the greatest pop pianist who ever lived." As the song says, to each...
...point in the discussions, Coleman read the results of M.I.T.'s contract negotiations. The maids there earn about 20 cents an hour more than at Harvard. When the audience heard these figures, several men yelled out, "Off to M.I.T., girls." Someone on the stage said he thought the maids at M.I.T. had different functions then at Harvard. One man in the audience cried, "Do they lay bricks...
Coleman said after the meeting that he would inform the University today of the union's decision to reject the contract. He did not know when negotiations would begin again, or how long they might take...
...Present Contract...
...present contract, which expired June 30, was for two years. If the union had approved this contract, Coleman explained, the University would have automatically made the pay raises retroactive. But, he told the workers, the University had said it would not guarantee retroactive pay if the first contract was rejected. Coleman said, however, that he would insist on the retroactive...