Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When efficient Dr. McGraw agreed to marry Mr. Mallina she commanded his attorney, Max Delson, to discover the quickest kind of ceremony. Lawyer Delson tracked down in the Domestic Relations Law a provision for contract marriage, which formerly could be under taken before a notary public but now requires the presence of a judge of a court of record. Mr. Delson could find only two prior instances of contract marriages, one for a Mr. Kelso and a Miss Bryant in 1917, the other for a man named Wickholm and his bride...
...Marriage contracts are usual in Europe, but are practically always accompanied by religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes...
Soon Mr. Darwin and Rogan Jones, the stocky, breezy owner of KVOS, had agreed on a contract, arranged to split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case...
Summoned by Senator Wheeler last week was RF Chairman Jesse Jones to give his views on the Terminal contract. Mr. Jones, it seemed, had lent MOP $17,000,000 before he had any inkling that the railroad was involved in commitments which were draining off $1,600,000 in much-needed cash annually. Neither to RFC nor to ICC, let alone its own stockholders, had the railroad disclosed the existence of the contracts. Belatedly Mr. Jones laid the facts before the U. S. Attorney General for possible fraud prosecution, but by then action was outlawed by a statute of limitation...
...cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig II is 38, tall, slim, and a crack contract player who enters big tournaments with his wife...