Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Victor Talking Machine Co. (TIME, Jan. 12) announced that no more would the famed opera and concert stars under contract to them broadcast on the radio. These free broadcastings had not boosted but had decreased the sales of Victor phonograph records. Last week, therefore, the Company replaced great artists * on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...reasons for giving the contract to the Aetna Life Insurance Company were that its propositions were more liberal and that the company had handled very satisfactorily a practically identical plan last year for M. I. T. Another advantage of the Aetna offer was that it would write policies for as low an amount as $250, which, in the words of the M. I. T. committee, "was deemed essential because it makes the plan more flexible financially; simplifies the matter of collections and practically places it entirely in the hands of the company. The Aetna is also recognized throughout the country...
Representatives of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine were questioned by TIME. Said they : "The firm of Heins '-& La Farge were the original architects. Mr. Heins died in 1907 and the contract Vith that firm expired about that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
Other feet approached the hut.Into view came certain breathless gentlemen of the law with yellow papers in their hands. They knew that the Stone Mountain Memorial Association had that morning held a meeting, canceled Borglum's contract, ousted him because he "had done no work, was antagonistic, glory-seeking, hard to deal with and under delusions of grandeur." The papers they carried were orders restraining Borglum from removing or damaging any of his models. They tried the door of the hut; it was locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment...
Since the inception of the American League of baseball clubs, 23 years ago, Byron Bancroft Johnson has been its President. As long ago as 1910, he signed a contract to serve in that post for 20 years, at a salary of $30,000 a year. For many, many years he was a sort of Grand Khan of the sport. He lias fought many battles during his career as President of the American League, serene in the confidence of his own ability to deal properly and effectively with whatever situation might arise...