Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress at all three buildings will be only slightly impeded for the present, for by good fortune most of the plumbing has been put in, and the rest will be delayed. The carpenters have signed a three-year contract and will not strike unless there are unforeseen developments. The lathers have not yet worked on the buildings and will not be needed for some time...
George Sisler, aged 32, baseman and manager of the St. Louis Browns, graduate of the University of Michigan. Suave, courteous, assured, imperially slim, his genius for baseball was observed as early as 1913 by Barney Dreyfus, astute owner of the Pittsburgh club, who put him under contract before he had come of age. Sisler's father repudiated the contract. St. Louis bid for him. Mr. Dreyfus would not give him up. The controversy, a sensational one, was referred to the National Commission, which finally awarded Sisler to St. Louis. Pittsburgh never forgave...
...preparations are being made by agents of the United States Lines for the accommodation of the Harvard representative. Within ten days of the announcement of the name of the winner tickets and contract will be sent him and suggestions for his better accommodation will follow shortly...
...Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...
...effect the final disposition of the criminal cases against Borglum, which disposition will be left absolutely with the State authorities." To refute the impression that no man in the U. S. would now have dealings with him, Sculptor Borglum announced a new project, said he had entered a contract to carve the figures of Washington and Lincoln on a mountain in South Dakota...