Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner thinks isn't worth a nickel and what the Vice President thinks is not for sale...
Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
Hollywood's Darryl Zanuck once kept blonde, blowzy Gracie Fields under contract for eight months while he tried expensively to make something out of her that the U. S. would laugh at. But millions of Britons including the Royal Family find her so amusing that one of her shows, Mr. Tower of London, had a continuous run in England of seven years (1918-25). Sheer animal vulgarity, including flea-scratching and grimaces, makes her a frantic success in British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last...
...more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before it ran to earth in St. Raymond's Parochial School in New York's Bronx. There a year ago Scout Oscar Serlin spotted...
...appealed to the Supreme Court to continue in effect its original order to Goodyear as a preventive to further price discrimination and 2) Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau beamed at the discovery that the bids for a new $1,500,000 Government tire&tube contract differed widely. Said he: "I am glad to see signs of competition in the tire bids, and I hope the practice will be extended to other merchandise purchased by the Government." Then, implying that price collusion is the everyday state of affairs in the U. S., the owlish Cabinet officer declared: "I also would...