Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON, Mr. Kent in his studio high in the Adirondacks announced that he had instructed his New York lawyers formally to demand of the Harvard School of Business Administration the entire sum of the prize rather than allow Marcus and Co. to forward it to him. His contract, he further stated, with this concern for the designing of advertisements expired recently...
...manner in conversation, and the way her eyes change color, she said at the time of her divorce from Ted Coy, onetime Yale footballer: "My love affairs, my servants, and the food I eat are not public property." When the Actors' Equity Association accused her of being a contract-breaker she pointed to the fact that she had missed only 18 performances in five years of Rain. She seems smaller off the screen than...
...making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...
...book publishers replied with prompt asperity that the Institution directors had their wits about them when they signed the contract, that the Smithsonian's scientific writers were receiving $47,000 pay for their efforts and the Institution, for merely lending its scientists and its name, would reap $43,750 on the first edition alone; when the second edition (at $150) is offered the general public, royalties would be enormous...
...contract for the Caloric engine, a type of which was used in the Monitor states among other things that at first a Philadelphia man and his associates desired to "ascertain whether Ericson's Caloric Engine might be employed for the purpose of propelling city rail-road cars." This part of the contract however did not materialize for only Ericson's signature is appended...