Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Departments of Jus tice and Commerce were also sniffing about the Midwestern brokerages. But not one of the investigators had yet run upon any proof of correspondence between the Messrs. Livermore and Howell nor any records of sales in those gentlemen's names executed in other than legitimate "contract" markets. As far as the evidence went, it was mere business acumen that had moved them separately to sell their grain at the same time and keep on selling until it was time to buy again and start the price-swing going upwards. The Messrs. Livermore and Howell are alleged...
...well provisioned, prepared to stay a month, until this new official nonsense might cease. But, a few days later, she was visited by a Coast Guard vessel on inspection, was notified that war had begun. Her crew offered a case of champagne for a package of cigarets, but the contract was not concluded...
Marriage Announced. Fiske O'Hara, famed actor, to Miss Pat Clary, actress, 17 years ago (see THE THEATRE). Because of a clause in the contract with his manager, Mr. O'Hara has been unable to make his marriage public. Recently, he became his own manager...
...Doheny renewed his offer. Again it was refused. Said the lawyers: "No objection has been made or will be made to Mr. Doheny's filling these tanks with oil sufficient to prevent rusting and deterioration if he sees fit to do so." But the Government could not make any contract with Mr. Doheny?not even to pay for the oil so used...
...contract is the largest made since the Bolshevik revolution and gives the Company ample compensation for losses sustained during the nationalization of the property. The concession covers an area of approximately 1,500,000 acres of gold, silver, copper and lead fields, the value of which were estimated at $150,000,000. U. S. capital is to participate on equal terms with British...