Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then, has Republic opposed the contract...
...first preview of Woman Chases Man, the audience's response to incidents like this was eminently satisfactory. Best sequences: Travis applying for a job; B. J. cooking hunter's thrush; the fight for the pen with which Kenneth is to sign the contract parodying the fight for the pistol which is the great traditional ending of Westerns...
Meantime C. I. O.'s organization drive has netted 100,000 members without civil commotion. But so far the only major company that has signed a national contract with Mr. Fremming's union is Harry Sinclair's Consolidated. That contract, curiously, was originally signed in 1934 and renewed several times. Other companies have bargained collectively with individual units of the Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers but Consolidated's contract covers all union members employed by the corporation...
...policyholder leaves the savings untouched, he cannot keep his insurance unless, he keeps on saving. This works a particular hardship on hard-pressed policyholders who need protection, can afford to pay for protection alone but are temporarily unable to spare the additional savings called for by the contract and no longer able to pass a physical examination for a new policy if the old is lapsed. To borrow on a policy to pay premiums amounts to borrowing at, say, 6% to invest...
...result of the Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned...