Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time after time, club owners growled and groused, threatening rebellion. On the few occasions when they failed to turn meek in due course, the Commissioner calmly threatened to tear up his contract...
Everybody knew that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis' contract as Baseball Commissioner might not be renewed. He had done much for baseball, earned the deep respect of both players and owners; but he was hardheaded and crusty, had stepped on a lot of toes during his quarter-century of rule. He was also old and sick. Club owners and sportswriters alike speculated about his successor. Then suddenly, a fortnight ago, the Judge took a turn for the worse. A joint committee of the National and American Leagues rushed to Chicago, solemnly recommended him for another seven years in office...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...Scribner Editor Maxwell Perkins once discovered a four-letter word in a Hemingway manuscript, showed it to the late Publisher Charles Scribner. "Remember," he said, "that we're forbidden by contract to change a word [of Hemingway]." "Dear, dear." said Mr. Scribner, "we will have to discuss this fully when I return from lunch." Then he vaguely jotted down the word on a pad headed: "What To Do Today...