Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Stage was the opening of negotiations last summer before the old anthracite wage contract expired at midnight Aug. 31. miners asked a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection of union dues out of miners' pay envelopes by the operators), these demands the operators assumed a general attitude of negation. The negotiations from July 9 to Aug. 4 never reached even a bargaining stage. The deadlock was apparent and they were broken...
Judge von Moschzisker's next topic of discussion was the coal situation. "There is only one point of difference between the two contending factions in the present controversy," he said. "They can agree as to a wage scale and contract for the present, but the operators insist on the arbitration of the wage scale when the contract expires. John Lewis, leader of the miners, says that an agreement to this proposition would be entering into voluntary slavery. However, contrary to general opinion. I am sure that both parties are trying to serve the public faithfully. Pennsylvania is suffering just...
...window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play to the tawdry "Tarzan of the Apes", by releasing a live ape named Prince Charley in the vestibule of the Hotel Knickerbocker. He writes "Next morning the story broke in every New York paper. Over long accounts of Charlie's adventures, were...
...international movement to secure recognition for business as a profession and to develop business as a science is the organization of The Business Historical Society, recently chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and having a membership covering the United States and Canada. It has negotiated and closed a contract with the University, whereby its collections will be permanently deposited and united with those of the Harvard Business Library...
Finally those who tottered to Les Halles (the public markets) for breakfast, drank a farewell toast in steaming peasant soup to M. Carpentier, "georgeous Orchid Man." He had announced his intention of sailing within the next few days to fulfill a cinema contract in California...