Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ultimately the picture he has acted in sets cinemaddicts atremble, but Terry Rooney has already thought himself a failure, married Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
Last month big, sandy-haired James Mattern took off for Alaska with a Soviet Government contract in his pocket guaranteeing to pay for property lost while searching the Arctic for Commander Sigismund Levanevsky and his five companions, missing since their last faint wireless message flashed out August 13 as they were descending with one dead motor somewhere near the 48th meridian. No charge did Flyer Mattern make for his personal services because the same commander and the same crew rescued him from the Siberian Arctic four years...
...search, to ask for $25,000 compensation for his wrecked ship. The Embassy differed widely with Mattern on his methods of search, Arctic conditions and the value of his damaged plane, expressed sharp displeasure at his failure to find the Red flyers. To his request for reimbursement under the contract the reply was in effect, Zavtra (tomorrow). When the Soviet authorities have satisfied themselves that James Mattern: 1) did crash his Ford plane in Alaska, and 2) that it was in connection with his search for their lost fliers, compensation will be considered...
...publisher and its A. F. of L. printers, the ruffled Brooklyn Eagle could thumb its beak last week at the C. I. O. American Newspaper Guild. Although about 300 editorial and business office Guildsmen were called out on strike after the Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild...
Before a battery of cameras in the office of Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants one day last fortnight, Manager William Harold Terry tore up his fat contract which still had a year to run, signed a new one for five years upping his salary to a reported $40,000 a year, highest current in the major leagues. One day last week Manager Charles Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds quietly walked into the office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped...