Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve when he and Maggie team in an act, celebrate its sensational success by marriage, improve even further when a Broadway scout (Charles Arnt) offers Skid a contract. In New York, Skid behaves badly. He not only neglects to send Maggie, waiting in Panama, the fare to follow him, but also takes up with a night club jade (Dorothy Lamour), in whose room he drunkenly answers the telephone the night Maggie finally arrives. Maggie divorces him. Skid disintegrates...
Fortunately their second song was Mr. Gallagher & Mr. She an, which sold 2,000,000 copies, 500,000 records. At the Club Kentucky, Mills heard Duke Ellington idly improvising, at once signed the Negro pianist to a contract on the back of a menu...
Three years ago, F. P. A. asked for a new contract, left his column out of the paper for one day until Publisher Reid, who does not like to sign things, acquiesced. The resulting document, to hold for three years, was signed by the columnist but never by the publisher. Last week when this "one-way" contract came up for renewal, Mrs. Reid could not break the impasse. Remarked Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt...
...During the Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...
...most brilliant children and perhaps the finest of the fine arts. The American genius, Edgar Allan Poe, believed that music was the highest form of human expression. Certainly, University Hall's refusal to give the Music Department enough funds to relieve its burden, which has consequently forced it to contract its operations, shows an unenlightened attitude. The refusal also partly explains what President Conant called "the present dilemma" of the Arts and Letters...