Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harriman and associates of Manhattan; and 3) the Lena Goldfields concession, granted to Britons. Generally speaking, Mr. Lee appears to mistrust the good faith of the Soviet Government in connection with the recently defunct Mologoles concessions and the Harriman scheme which is now going forward under a completely revised contract "far more favorable to Mr. Harriman...
Reconciled. Dorothy Cumming, whose contract as the "Blessed Virgin" in the cinema play The King of Kings forbids her from the "appearance of evil" for at least seven years; with the father of her two children, Frank Elliott, from whom she was divorced last December...
...snub-nosed Kate (Jobyna Ralston) daughter of the lunch room lady. Jim warns Bat to go slowly round the curve. Bat speeds up, skids, smashes into the ditch. Unhurt, Jim fires up old Engine No. 99, hauls on the mail bags, rushes to Medicine Bend on time, winning the contract and Kate...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...