Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudolph M. Mallina, 44, research engineer of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Upon signing the contract the two became man and wife...
...chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers...
...Manhattan chambers of New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman one day last week a man and woman signed their names to the foregoing contract. The woman was Dr. Myrtle Bryan McGraw, 37, child psychologist of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Babies' Hospital, campaigner for brighter and better-trained moppets, famed for her observations of twins Jimmy & Johnny, Margie & Florie, in each pair of which one has been carefully trained and the other raised like any other child (TIME, Sept...
...Moines, in 1935, a scout for the Cleveland Indians discovered a sandlot pitcher named Robert Feller, who, although he was not yet 17, seemed promising enough to hire. Following the customary procedure, Feller was given a contract with the Fargo-Moorhead Club of the Northern League. Before he had played a game with Fargo-Moorhead, Cleveland had him transferred to New Orleans. Before he had played a game for New Orleans Cleveland arranged for Feller, while still young enough to have his father sign his contracts and be prevented from playing minor-league baseball because his family wanted...
...member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...