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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dionne quintuplets, lustily growing, have fulfilled every promise save one: the contract their father made with a Chicago World's Fair promoter, three days after their birth, to ship them to Chicago as a sideshow. Last week the nursery, under the administration of Dr. Dafoe and a board of guardians appointed by Ontario's Attorney General, had piled up nearly $30,000 profit, a large part from newsreel contracts. The Parent Dionnes and their other five children, in the old farmhouse 100 yards away, were living far better than in the days before Mother Dionne labored five times...
Eddie Casey, former Varsity coach, who has recently been appointed coach of the Boston Redskins, has signed a contract to appear over the Yankee Network as a football commentator. His programs will start in Mid-September, and will be heard each Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening throughout the football season...
...other is a liar,† Russia's Amtorg Trading Corp. continues to buy in the U. S. much as if there had been no quarrel-making diplomatic recognition of Moscow by Washington (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Last week bustling Amtorg Board Chairman Ivan Boyeff signed in Pittsburgh a contract with Pittsburgh's United Engineering & Foundry Co. to buy more than $3,500,000 worth of electric-powered, roller-bearing equipment for the $700,000,000 Zaporozhstal (steel) Works, most of which will be built of Russian material by Russians in Russia...
Reluctant to speak out, Sir Arthur finally declared: "Stripped of juridical niceties, the effect of the gold clause verdict of the United States Judges is that words have no meaning. The verdict destroys the terms of contracts expressed in explicit language and operative in United States territory. The verdict destroys the reliance by Europe upon any contract of the United States upon which to base stabilization of exchange essential to the restoration of international trade...
...upward climb to Mesta's presidency, Engineer Iversen became a shrewd salesman with all the hitting power of a forging press. Not only can he sell his steelmaking machines to ordinary prospects. At least once he sold a buyer who had already let the contract to a competitor. He still speaks with a strong accent and lives in Pittsburgh's safe and solid East End. Sixtyish and no socialite, he is fanatic on the subject of personal publicity, has never permitted a photographer to enter his home or office. Perhaps the only picture of Lorenz Iversen in existence...