Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland. The contract-largest of its kind in Soviet history-was signed last week. Contentedly, masterfully, President Wilbert J. Austin of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders) turned from his glowing globe to speak crisply of his biggest, most distant deal. "Soviet Russia has adopted the method any large industrial...
...rights." Out also went a $250,000 pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...
...politics in Massachusetts is due to jealousies and backbiting between leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
George Eastman (Kodaks, philanthropy), signed a contract with the Italian Government agreeing to present $1,000,000 to build and equip a dental dispensary in Rome...
After great uncertainty the council chose a design by Sculptor Alexandre Zeitlin and Architect Robert Lafferty, both of Manhattan. The model shows Gompers standing on a triangular pedestal with workingmen at each corner, looking up at him, shining searchlights upon him at night. President Green, awarding no contract to the prize winners, explained that the model "might be modified somewhat to suit the ideas of the Council...