Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fictitious Beal Distributing Co. in the suit brought against it by the Langdell Manufacturing Co. whose case the Simpson-Sayre Club presented. Counsel for Langdell maintained that their refusal to abide by the terms of the new Federal Wages and Hours Law did not constitute a breach of contract because the Law was unconstitutional...
With these words Governor George D. Aiken last week stirred his legislature to come to the defense of Union Village. The Governor had a letter from Secretary of War Woodring directing that work begin on a Federal flood control dam on the Ompompanoosuc River before a contract had been made compensating Union Village and other towns for the loss of taxes on land condemned by the U. S. for the dam site...
...snowy mountains at Montpelier, Vermont's legislators-mostly Republicans as they have been throughout the New Deal, mostly farmers like their Governor, mostly thrifty taciturn New Englanders-made history: they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
Terms of the compromise contract, signed after a hearing before the State Labor Relations Board Friday morning, include a seven per cent wage increase, 48 hour week, and a preferential shop...
...termination clause which was the last stumbling block in the path of conciliation, provides that the contract shall expire in six months, and will be automatically renewed unless one side gives notice of wanting to amend it at least 30 days before the contract expires...