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...expire on Election Day is the contract by which TVA has refrained from invading vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s retail power market in the Tennessee Valley. Now in the process of laying duplicating transmission lines and primed to generate 200,000 h. p., TVA is potentially ready to strike at Commonwealth & Southern and other power companies in the neighborhood by absorbing 60% of their market. At stake was also the future of many another private utility company with which the Governments other great power projects are potential competitors...
...Club flies under contract with the inter-City Airlines, one of the seven government approved schools in the country. Only University restriction imposed upon the organization, he said, is that all members must have their parents' consent...
...would be unfair not to mention the material gains which this contract will furnish less lucrative sports, as well as the certain amount of pleasure in store for alumni unable to attend these games. But it is more than a little disappointing to find that Yale should weigh these advantages against the many obvious objections and still feel justified in vacating that responsibility of leadership in athletic idealism which we have always felt Harvard, Yale and Princeton should share together...
Cried orderly Nicholas Murray Butler: "The world of today . . . is not happy. It is not contented. It is not prosperous. . . . In Seattle some 650 working people, who are under contract to carry on their daily employment [at Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer] and who are anxious to do so, are kept in idleness for days by the disorderly and lawless force of a group of disturbers of the peace of whom the city, the county and the State authorities are in such terror that nothing whatever is done by any one of these to restore...
Chief significance of Louis' victory was that it added weight to arguments in favor of a bout between Louis and Champion Jim Braddock before the latter fights Max Schmeling next June. Braddock's contract with Madison Square Garden prohibits his defending his title before the Schmeling fight. Last week, Philadelphia's Promoter Herman Taylor explored a loophole in the agreement by offering Braddock a fat sum to fight for a no-decision fight with Louis-i. e., a fight in which Braddock's title would not be at stake. Madison Square Garden promptly protested that...