Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with the Bell Syndicate. Byrnes threatened to fill the strip with anti-Communist digs. Taunted the Worker...
Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...
...though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club on a gin mill other than...
Divorced. By Joan Davis, 35, one of radio's loudest and most expensive comediennes (her contract calls for $10,000 a week): Si Wills, 48, once her vaudeville partner, then writer of her radio scripts; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...companies, Borgatti said, has asked the Band to do an album of marches for it, while the other hopes to close a contract with the College group for a series of such volumes...