Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walsh-Healy Act, which requires all manufacturers who contract to supply the Federal Government with $10,000 or more of goods to certify that such goods are produced under a 40-hour week...
Turning aside from his organization drives for the moment, the Sit-Down's boldest tactician, C. I. O. Boss Lewis, resumed his role as president of United Mine Workers, settled down in Manhattan for a long haggle with soft-coal operators over a new two-year wage & hour contract to replace the one expiring March 31. Coal trouble still threatened. Automobile trouble was only quiescent.* Steel trouble was almost certain, and last week in Texas it was reported that April 5 the C. I. O. would launch a great drive to organize Oil. In all of those impending struggles...
...secrets, ordered his hotel managers to throw her out. They had to take her door off its hinges and pull up her carpet before they succeeded. Senator Sharon gave her a fat cash settlement, thought he was through with her. But after two years Sarah Althea produced a marriage contract she claimed they had signed, also displayed letters from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging adultery and desertion, demanding large alimony and division of community property. Both...
Before Federal Judge John P. Barnes, the high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis argued that the contract was void, that the agreement was against public policy, that the court did not have jurisdiction anyway...
...support their brief that the contract was void the legalists cited the Contract Labor Law of 1885 which voids contracts entered into with aliens prior to entry into the U. S. Revised in 1917, the law permits U. S. appearances of professional actors, artists and singers, also entry of fair & exposition performers contracted by an alien exhibitor. What Judge Barnes had to decide this week is whether the statute bars such contracts secured by a U. S. promoter...