Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the rumors that followed in the wake of the contract signed on Saturday with the A. F. of L. cooks and waitresses were spiked by a statement made to the CRIMSON yesterday by John W. Lowes '19, Financial Vice-president of the University, whose remarks were confirmed by Joseph Stefani, secretary and business representative of locals...
Four copies of the marriage contract were signed, a white flag went up on the palace as token that the bridegroom had shaken hands with his father-in-law, first of 101 guns boomed out. Waiters rushed to the distinguished guests with trays of rose water and honey. All but the two officiating sheiks received solid gold candy boxes as wedding souvenirs. The two sheiks each got a Cashmere shawl...
...Chicago, at five o'clock one tense morning, near the end of a noisy five-hour mass meeting, 350 American Newspaper Guild members from the Hearst Herald & Examiner and American tore up picket signs, canceled a threatened strike, accepted a one-year Guild contract offered by nervous little Herald & Examiner Publisher Emanuel ("Manny") Levi, who also took over the American fortnight ago. The contract provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial...
...tycoons. By last week charges had been dismissed against all but 16 companies and 30 men. In 1935 and 1936, according to the Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma; by contract the price of gasoline they sold to big jobbers was determined by the price that they themselves paid in the spot markets ; gradually, by "golden stairs to greed and avarice." they raised the price of the small quantities of gasoline they bought from the independents, thereby raising the price of the large quantities...
...granting a contract, of its own free will and without compulsion, to an outside union, the University has vindicated its liberal tradition and ended three months of negotiations that may well serve as an example to corporation in other parts of the country...