Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman of 40, full-fleshed and well-garmented, wrote his cheque in London last week for ?5,000 ($24,300), passed it over to a firm of caterers, and received from them a contract to furnish him with two meals a day for the rest of his life but never to reveal his name, even after his death...
...reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance of the Versailles Treaty, a denial...
After seven years of wrangling over the Yangtze Patrol, Washington has made a contract in Shanghai for six modern gunboats to replace the old and feeble units now in use. The first is to be ready in March, the others to follow a month apart. The Elcano will soon be released from duty as a floating fortification at Ichang and scrapped...
...National League. In 1924 his average was .424 the highest ever achieved by a modern-day player. Last season, weakened by boils and injuries, he batted .317. He is said to be "worth" $300,000. He quarreled with Owner Breadon because he asked for a three-year contract...
...almshouses, to practice the application of their beliefs upon the sick and troubled.* For medical schools: courses in professional ethics. Besides the lessons learned from the silent examples of fine doctors, let there be instruction in the inconsistencies of the Hippocratic oath, in the unwritten laws on fees, contract practice, birth control, state medicine, abortion, advertising, competition...