Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests may witness a Mohammedan wedding which is a business contract entered into between the groom and the bride's father...
...under famed Educator Alexander Meiklejohn. A more modest effort in the same line was the importation a year ago of John Steuart Curry to be resident artist at the University. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the College of Agriculture, Artist Curry was given a five-year contract at $4,000 a year, a studio and the right to the title "Professor Curry," which he promptly painted on his garbage...
With the release of Every Day's A Holiday, Paramount and Mae West parted company. She is under contract to Producer Emanuel Cohen, whose production Paramount has sponsored. Last week Producer Cohen and Adolph Zukor, Paramount head, climaxed a four-year feud by calling off their deal. What bothered Paramount more than Mae West's loss was that on Producer Cohen's personal payroll is Crooner Bing Crosby...
...thousand and last week the council approved the lease to U. G. I. Nothing daunted, Mayor Wilson refused to execute the new lease and on December 31, last day of the old U. G. I. lease, he declared a "state of emergency," asserting that there existed no legal contract or lease to operate the gasworks, that since "lawlessness . . . possible loss of life . . . injury . . . and damage to property" might ensue, he would take over the gasworks at midnight, reduce the rate at once to 50^, and raise the pay of "all necessary employes...
...last year for radio time consumed. Messrs. Gosden and Correll have been teamed on the air for almost 18 years and theirs is the second oldest national radio program. This week Amos 'n' Andy went to work for Campbell's Soup on a 156-week contract at $7,500 a week...