Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamental difference between the AAAct and its current substitute is that under the former the farmer was bound by contract to reduce his cash crops by specified percentages. Now he reduces them voluntarily within Department of Agriculture specifications and is rewarded according to the extent of his cooperation. But to control next year's corn crop, the Department last week proposed to set definite acreage limits, enforced by an extra reward and a penalty...
...This newspaper has a contract with the Guild which does not interfere to the slightest extent with my right to say what shall or shall not be printed in this newspaper. I can order a member of the Guild to write that two and two make five, and fire him without notice if he disobeys, just as I can fire him for drunkenness or any other good and sufficient cause. . . . More than 90% of your members have contracts with typographical, pressmen's and stereotypers' unions. . . . Will you name one instance where any of these mechanical unions has presumed...
...Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...
They will protest the failure of Yale to renew the teaching contract of Jerome Davis, professor of Practical Philanthropy, believing that the University's action was motivated chiefly by Davis' labor sympathies and activities in the Teachers Union. His contract will be ended next June allegedly on grounds of scholastic incompetence...
Defendant Peacher testified that he had an oral contract with the county to work prisoners on his place. A county judge had once expressed the opinion that "it would be all right" when he proposed the practice. "I arrested those Negroes because they were loafing around town. . . . They were loafers and a honky-tonk bunch," he declared...