Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band, readers must remember that the big booking agencies are getting grey hairs trying to find new bands to fill the spots which are opening for name band attractions, and that every effort is being made to entice good side-men away from their leaders to fulfill contracts . . . Buddy Shutz, Goodman's drummer, who always gave me a pain in the neck, is leaving with no replacement announced. For a guy that's supposed to be leaving the business. Goodman is making an awful lot of excellent changes. If he keeps on this way, he may soon be back...
...Guild has tried for five years to organize the Times, but the Times has so far refused to consider any contract that does not contain an open-shop clause. The Guild is forbidden by its constitution to accept the open-shop principle, although in contracts with other publishers it has frequently agreed to open-shop conditions by omitting any mention of a "Guild shop" (a modified closed shop). By bringing the home life of the Times into the open the Guild hopes to make it easier for Timesmen to join up, eventually to get a contract...
...said] if we were ever obliged to write a closed shop contract . . . that the New York Times would be for sale, because I did not believe it would be possible to get out an honest newspaper under these conditions, and that I did not want to be associated with any other kind...
When 25 of the nation's top-notch contract bridge teams sat down in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel last week to fight for the most prized team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against...
Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...