Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the newshawks, photographers, gawkers and sharpers who hurried to the sleepy village of Callander, Ont. at the end of May 1554 was a Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing...
Same day Lawyer Kutner secured this deposition he went into Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...
...Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed to pay him a $1,000 fee and $250 expenses to get Lawyer Scarritt to withdraw his suit. After numerous conferences Lawyer Conrad told his clients the real-estate firm would not retreat unless paid $35,350. They agreed and Lawyer Conrad drew up a contract making the deal with McCoy Land Co. The property was sold without interference...
...misconduct, suspended him from the practice of law for four months because he had accepted a fee not only from his property-owning clients but also from McCoy Land Co. He asked for and got, the Supreme Court found, $5,000 from McCoy Land Co. not mentioned in the contract. Widely known for his oratorical abilities, Lawyer Conrad long has had a large Kansas City real-estate practice. The Missouri Bar Committee's discovery of McCoy's $5,000 fee to Lawyer Conrad resulted from testimony in an Oak Streeter's successful suit against McCoy...
Meanwhile the rest of U. S. Industry, light and heavy, was pouring forth additional data on the end of Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made...