Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love, whose organization is under contract with the Flying Club, stressed the importance of sound instruction for the student flyer. The rest of the evening was devoted to speeches outlining the Club's plans for the year. The policy is basically the same as last year, but it was announced that in the future the Club would admit no associate, or non-flying, members...
...celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall...
...personal stupidity." had further opined that Catholicism and the C.I.O. are incompatible. Last week in his official Michigan Catholic, Archbishop Mooney expressed his regret for Father Coughlin's language, took issue with him on his reasoning. Two days later Father Coughlin announced that he was canceling his contract for 26 radio broadcasts which were to have begun October 31. Archbishop Mooney, he declared, had declined to permit the radio priest to publish a rebuttal to the Michigan Catholic statement. Said a spokesman for Father Coughlin: "It was quite apparent that Father Coughlin would be permitted only to talk platitudes...
...members, some of them seasoned players in National Broadcasting Co. orchestras, others newly hired from symphonies all over the world. Titled the NBC Symphony Orchestra, it was especially assembled to play under Arturo Toscanini when that exacting little maestro arrives in the U. S. in December, to fulfill the contract he signed with NBC last winter (TIME, Feb. 15). For the ten concerts he will conduct on Saturday nights (10 to 11:30 E. S. T. on both NBC networks), Toscanini will receive $40,000 plus his passage and U. S. income taxes...
...fine edge on the legal profession's fury at Franklin Delano Roosevelt it was the Constitution Day address three weeks ago in which he again voiced his low opinion of "legalistic interpretation" of the Constitution, described it as a "layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." Principal pleasure of the five-day meeting was a series of political speeches and a set of political resolutions which set the legal profession and the New Deal on an equal footing of mutual disrespect...