Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup was announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
Asked to take away these pictures and some other nudes, the embattled independents protested indignantly, refused to compromise by hanging the pictures in a separate room. Though the store's contract for the exhibition provided that ''The Fair shall have absolute right to eliminate from [its] premises any such works of art as it may desire," the artists believed that the cherished no-jury principle had been violated, apparently not by the contract, but by the fact that the contract had been invoked. Sadly The Fair's Advertising Manager Arthur D. Buckland, himself an artist, withdrew...
...credit is good. One customer's funds may not be used to support another customer's accounts. Floor brokers and commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements to prevent month-end squeezes, and the right to fix limits on the amount of trading by any one person except in legitimate hedging operations...
...Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked it, and when he discovered two young men with a passion for building radio sets, he put them under a ten-year contract. Their station letters, ZN, were the inspiration of the company's name...
...Wilhelm Furtwangler did not assume directorship of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society because (1 the salary was inadequate, 2 leading musicians declared him incompetent, 3 the National Broadcasting Company cancelled its contract to broadcast concerts, 4 subscribers threatened to boycott next season's concerts because of his Nazi connections, 5 it was discovered that he had definite Communistic sympathies...