Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "stars," men and women of taste, gentility who could keep fickle sports-lovers' interest-Tilden, Jones, Wills . . . Last week Mr. Pyle secured a prize beyond his dreams-a sporting primadonna. Suzanne Lenglen, temperamental world's champion tennis player, artiste of the courts, signed a $110,000 contract for a four-months' exhibition tour this autumn through the U. S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, after which she will appear in a tennis film. She hopes that tennis will soon be like golf in permitting amateurs to compete with professionals in open meets without jeopardizing their amateur standing. Said...
William Faversham, who has been functioning as the Christus in Hollywood's annual religious tableau, was last week ousted from the cast for refusal to attend rehearsals. Christus Faversham entered suit to force completion of contract...
Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, made a tentative contract with the Alabama Power Co. for the disposal of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first...
...refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats were smug...
Kermit had sought this contract for months, might have lost out in the unusually keen competition, were it not for the recommendation of President Crowley of the Fleet Corp. Assured of operating the line, this youngest living son of the late President Roosevelt exclaimed: "I am convinced that there is an excellent future for the American Merchant Marine and intend to devote all my time toward making my operations a success...