Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, January 13--James M. Curley, colorful Boston politician and two associates today lost an appeal from mail fraud convictions growing out of war contract deals. The U. S. court of appeals ruled against them in a 2 to 1 decision...
...Baltimore, Henry L Mencken, whose beery Christmas Story had been yanked off sale in Canada, was feeling better. A Canadian cinema producer had the rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in exchange for rights to the old hoax, the old hoaxer (who is a connoisseur of brews) was guaranteed two cases of Canadian ale a month for the rest of his life. Further, he did not have to return "the bottles and containers or other cartons in which such ale is shipped...
Caniff's new five-year contract with Marshall Field calls for a $2,000-a-week minimum. The Field organization was not equipped to sell the new strip nationally, so left-winger Field, who shudders at William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...
Until present contracts run out, said Givens, teachers have no business striking. But nobody can force them to sign up again next fall unless the contracts look a lot better. If they don't, said Givens, teachers should take a lesson from John L. Lewis: "No contract, no work." N.E.A.'s estimate of proper salaries: $2,400 a year for qualified beginners, $4,000 to $6,000 for experienced teachers...
...doing it. The deal gave United World not only 200 film subjects but 3,300 retail outlets, mostly camera shops and department stores. To keep Castle running under its own name as a division of United World, Founder-Owner Eugene W. Castle was signed up to a long-term contract at $40,000 a year...