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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leaping Parson, may eventually intervene. President Martin is trying desperately to live down the union's reputation for irresponsibility. He has not only promised to discipline sit-downers but has also conceded to General Motors, as a condition to further negotiations on renewal of the union's contract, the right of the company to fire unauthorized sit-downers without recourse. Militant leaders know that in a growing union members want action, and if there was any truth in the rumor that members of U.A.W. are failing wholesale to pay their dues, trouble for Mr. Martin was certainly brewing...
...roommate borrowed my last shirt today, and I haven't yet discovered the name of the laundry with whom I signed a contract. Gosh, I've only worn two shirts since I got to Cambridge...
Hungarian Bus-Fekete, onetime architect, is now one of Europe's most successful playwrights, is under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...photography contract has again been awarded to the Warren Kay Vantine Studio of Boston. Individual portraits will be made in the Houses, where portable studies will be maintained...
...last Jockey Donoghue kept his weight down to 110 lb. Lately a contract rider for Sir Victor Sassoon, owner of Shanghai's ill-fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby...