Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd enough as a card player to have invented the "Vanderbilt Convention" at contract bridge, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is no less canny as a yachtsman. When he sold his old boat to Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America...
...citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
Last week the editors of the Advance announced that they had asked Mr. Babson for permission to reprint the special letter in question, received in reply an unexpectedly sour Babsonism. The Reports reminded the Moderator, were a "confidential service," and already "some subscriber had broken faith and violated his contract in making public these statements...
...Governor Murphy's State, President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers also ordered a "purge," removing three Flint organizers and transferring an-other "because of unauthorized sit-downs." General Motors has had more than 200 "wildcat" strikes since it signed its contract last winter, and G. M. President William Knudsen announced last week that he would not negotiate a new contract until U.A.W. agreed to definite penalties for violations by its unruly members. Since the U.A.W. record is held against all C.I.O. unions. John L. Lewis dispatched John Brophy from his own staff to survey Homer Martin...
...protest the "disarrangement" of Orphée and Prince Igor, in which the Ballet Russe did not supplement the singers but stole the show from them. While Sir Thomas Beecham quietly prepared to leave London on a vacation, people gossiped that he would not renew his Covent Garden contract next year. But only cheers awaited Vice Chairman Frank Pick of the London Passenger Transport Board, who wrote to the Times...