Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each [prior] case, the violation alleged by those attacking minimum wage regulation for women is deprivation of freedom of contract. What is this freedom? "The Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract. It speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty without due process...
Easter night Mr. Lewis had to leave for Manhattan to negotiate with coal operators for his United Mine Workers, whose wage contract expires this week. Walter Chrysler continued in session with Mr. Lewis' aides, but sessions were abbreviated so that Governor Murphy could give his attention to other strikes...
...Negro Boxer Henry Armstrong, whose contract is owned by Cinemactor Al Jolson: his ten-round bout against Aldo Spoldi, lightweight champion of Italy, by decision; in Manhattan...
...admitted that his greatest desire was to "go to Hollywood . . . . who wouldn't?", he exclaimed. But although a life of leisure doesn't appear to be completely distasteful to Fuller, he is afraid that once in the movie city, he will be shoved aside with a long term contract and nothing to do but admire the scenery. Again it is difficult to visualize Fuller objecting to Hollywood scenery...
...save himself and his son from starvation, a poor man leases his wife for three years to a childless rich man. She fulfills the contract, bears the rich man a son, then returns to her poverty, her heart torn between her two children...