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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Racetrack. Young Mattos Rodríguez sold La Cumparsita to a Buenos Aires publisher for 20 gold pesos, lost them at the races next day, later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
...offers a good opportunity for commending the dining hall management on their success in keeping the board rate at its former level, while continuing to buy the same quality food as last year, and while tuition and rent have been raised. Justified complaints, aggravated by the compulsory 21-meal contract, detract from the major accomplishment of serving food cheaply, however...
Just how she got the contract he didn't know. (The executive who handled...
Lone Star, Vice President George Anderson, is sitting out his contract on an Arizona ranch, writing a history of the year-old company.) But, said Germany, she stood to make at least $2,000,000 and possibly $3,500,000 on the deal...
...said they heard him say: "We would be just damned fools to go through with this deal ... I would rather have a lawsuit on my hands than be dead broke." Eaton's own lawyer testified: Eaton had asked him if there was any escape clause in the underwriting contract with K-F. Eaton reportedly said he was going over it with a "fine-tooth comb" to look for an out. (An out developed the following Monday when a Philadelphia lawyer filed a suit against Kaiser-Frazer, and Eaton used it as a reason to break the contract...