Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Words. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic recently obtained a vote of confidence from his industry when he was elected head of the Iron & Steel Institute instead of William A. Irvin of U. S. Steel (which signed a contract with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that...
...managements which seek his services are not necessarily sick but simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME, June 8, 1936), to unleash his imagination upon a rival fair. Mr. Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were...
...Because we are convinced this contract would be merely the first step toward a later demand for the closed shop and the checkoff...
Being a playwright's playwright and, at 45, a man with a serious social conscience he was persuaded to head the Dramatists'' Guild in 1935. In spite of his close Hollywood connections, he immediately set about revising the standard Guild playwright's contract so that now if a film company is the financial backer of a legitimate show, it must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage...
...part in Kid Galahad, and New York's Bob Pastor, who last winter avoided being knocked out by Joe Louis by running away for ten rounds. Pastor's reward for knocking Nestell down twice, winning easily in ten rounds: an offer of a screen contract...