Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...
Investigation. Last January, while investigating Teapot Dome, the Senate Committee on Public Lands discovered that just before and just after Dec. 20, 1922, the date of the Salt Creek lease, Oilman Sinclair gave or loaned Secretary Fall $35,000. The day the bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward...
Secretary Work renewed the contract. Last week, after the contract had been voided by Attorney General Sargent, Dr. Work cited a letter written by Senator Walsh last winter in which the Inquisitor had said: "I am unable to understand how the Government can escape the obligation to renew the contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion...
...only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract was that it was exceedingly bad business for the U. S. Prices had risen and Sinclair was getting high grade oil from the U. S. far below the market...
...called because in his forgeries he always chose a name containing the letter K, ended up in Hollywood with a contract in the movies. Nobody seemed to know who he was and all through the play suspicion veered among the occupants of a Hollywood lunchroom. When suspicion was not veering, gags appeared; these were somewhat amusing...