Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cantor joined Twentieth Century-Fox in September 1936 under a three-picture arrangement for a reputed $1,000,000, after having spent the previous seven years with Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists. He bought his release from the Goldwyn contract when Goldwyn failed to buy Three Men on a Horse for him. AH Baba Goes to Town is his first film under the Twentieth Century-Fox agreement...
...Shamrocks. By last week the Shamrocks had lost two of the three games they had played, were losing money lavishly. No one expected them to last out the year. Then suddenly the Shamrocks announced that they had signed the celebrated Larry Kelley, Yale '37, to a remarkable contract...
Elliott Roosevelt, second son of The President, signed a contract to broadcast news commentaries twice a week from Fort Worth, Tex. His 15-minute programs will contain no mention of politics, will be confined to news "in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen...
...invitation (TIME, Feb. 8), Gropius declined, suggested that Moholy-Nagy, then working on photography and cinema in London, was "the best man they could get." In response to a flood of cables and letters from Miss Stahle and from Gropius, chunky Moholy-Nagy finally accepted a five-year contract. Last summer, while workmen were knocking down walls in the old Marshall Field mansion and making parlors into draughting rooms, the New Bauhaus director arrived in Chicago, genially explained that in England he had been called "Holy Mahogany" but the right way to pronounce his name was Moholy-Nodj, sat down...
Associated Press employes, already on a five-day week, learned last week that a Guild-proposed contract for the New York office had been studied and flatly rejected by the A.P. board of directors a fortnight ago. Throughout extended negotiations with New York A. P. officials the Guild insisted upon a Guild shop under which all new employes must join the Guild within a stated period...