Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College, who resigned his Senate seat last August. "A man who has a contract with the people can't resign," bellowed the Kingfish. President Fredericks wired a hasty acceptance of the invitation to retake his seat when Long's bodyguard, Joe Messina, threatened to put him under arrest if he refused. The Senate showed a spark of spirit by voting down one bill when Boss Long was away. But when he swaggered back to the chamber the Chair hastily reversed its ruling, declared the bill passed...
...world's "highest-paid conductor" was enraged to find the Record boldly recording many of his earnings: "When he came to Philadelphia, he got $600 a concert. In 1922 he signed a contract for 10 years, to conduct 90 concerts a year at $800 a concert. . . . But after signing the 10-year contract, he began raising doubts each spring as to whether he would return in the fall, contract or no contract. So, each spring, the board, agreeing he was a great artist, gave him more money, despite the contract, until in 1929 he was getting $2,000 a concert...
...open letter crammed with visionary hopes and aims Stokowski criticized the board for not having made the most of radio. With a good contract, he said, "It should be possible to finish the season without any deficit and it might even be possible to reduce the price of concert tickets...
Northrop Corp., subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 19), was not the only company to benefit from the recent boom in military aircraft orders. Fortnight ago the Army Air Corps awarded Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo a contract for 50 pursuit planes to cost $1,999,700, as part of its plan to buy at least 600 new planes in the next three years. Last week Consolidated Aircraft Corp. received another order $243,000 from the Chinese Government for 50 Fleet training planes...
...reasons which Stokowski gave for his resignation were "deep-lying differences" with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson. Stokowski's contract for this season expires Dec. 26. In his open letter to the board he said: "You have not been able to find and engage an executive director that is acceptable to the majority of you and to me, and so I have not been able to make the great number of detailed arrangements that would be absolutely essential for the coming season if it were to be carried...