Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement . . . that payment will discharge and retire an acknowledged contract obligation of the Government is, I regret to say, not in accordance with the fact. It wholly omits and disregards the fact that this contract obligation is due in 1945 and not today...
...Last week after again threatening a general automobile shutdown by a strike in Toledo's Chevrolet transmissions plant-a strike which forced the closing of 16 other General Motors plants-A. F. of L. again made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result...
...undergraduate editor of the Williams Record last month conceived a revenge. Circulated by the Record was a petition threatening to boycott the local theatre unless it stopped showing Hearst Metrotone News. By the time one-quarter of Williams College had signed the petition the theatre manager canceled his contract, left Hearstlings fantastically fuming that Williams' President Tyler Dennett had instigated the petition to get publicity for his college. Quickly the boycott spread. Last fortnight the Amherst, Mass., theatre gave in at first appearance of a petition on the Amherst College campus. At Princeton, the Princetonian started a petition...
...Oklahoma City a group of chainsters were sued for $35,840, the total theoretical payoff on seven $5 letters. Charging breach of contract, the disgruntled buyers declared: "The defendants refused, neglected and failed to sell sufficient letters for the names of the plaintiffs to reach...
...Chairman Warner owns 310 shares of preferred. Both he and President Noah have a contract to collect from 2 ½% to 6% on all American Woolen earnings over $2,000,000. Last year American Woolen lost $5,000,000. Mr. 'Warner also receives $134,553 as president of McCall Corp. (McCall's Magazine...