Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propriety of Cabinet Ministers (Lord Birkenhead, in particular) writing articles for the press, Premier Stanley Baldwin announced in the House that he had spoken about the matter to Lord Birkenhead, who promised to cease his interesting journalistic efforts, except for a monthly magazine to which he was under contract to write a number of historical papers. "The rule may, therefore, be taken as reëstablished,"* observed the Premier, "that members during their term of office will not contribute to journalism...
...confident thai the contract will prove to be the forerunner of other projects of a similar kind. We welcome American capital and American business men to Russia, and will accord them every facility and consideration...
...contract becomes operative 45 days after the Government of Georgia (South Russia), liquidates its monopoly of manganese exports. This done, the Moscow Government will receive at Lloyd's Bank in London the sum of $1,000,000, which the Harriman interests have advanced against the first year's royalties...
Brown is under contract to play for two weeks, and if his performance is as pleasing to the management as his rehearsals have been, he will probably be awarded a permanent contract in the company. In that case he will finish out the four or five more weeks the show is scheduled to run in Boston and will then go with the show to Chicago and accompany it to London in the fall...
...yelling Finnish-Americans, had his last pictures taken by U. S. cameramen, departed for Finland. On the same day, in answer to those scandal mongers who have averred that he padded his expense account, a list of his expenditures was published. He, who had been offered a professional contract of $3,000 a week, $60,000 by advertisers who wanted his endorsement, lived for six months...