Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buckley and Adkins are under contract which limits their salaries to $500 apiece with the rest of the profits going to Phillips Brooke House. The Contract further states that if the Year Book does not clear $1000. Buckley and Adkins will receive 70 percent of the proceeds and PHB 80 percent...
...Wirt Ross, a shrewd fight manager, saw possibilities in Henry Jackson, offered Promoter Cox $250 for the skinny-shanked featherweight's contract. The first thing Wirt Ross did was to change Henry Jackson's name to Henry Armstrong. The name worked like a charm. Henry Armstrong became a two-fisted swinger who went into the ring punching and never stopped until he knocked out his exhausted opponent...
Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...
...making aluminum. A sample arrangement, according to Lawyer Rice, was that with Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Manufacturing Co. by which it agreed not to sell power to anyone making aluminum except Alcoa; cryolite, too, is needed and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. had a monopoly there, so Alcoa made a contract with Pennsylvania Salt...
Fortnight ago, labor-loving readers of the Citizen-News were shocked when labor-loving Publisher Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal...