Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means asserted: 1) that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza has done all this for the Metropolitan Opera Company for the past 16 years. Still far from broken, he continues to be liked by his company. So it was not surprising to learn last week that he had signed a contract to retain his directorship for five years more...
Comparatively little notice was attracted by a conference of soft coal miners and operators at Jacksonville. There might have been a major strike if there had been a disagreement. Instead a contract was signed extending the present wage scale and all other conditions for three years from the expiration of the present contract on April 1. The miners wished a four-year extension, but the operators insisted on a three-year term in order that the next agreement might not be made in a Presidential year when all politicians are looking for the miner vote. After ten days of unostentatious...
...aims. This liberalization would come through the welcoming of a more popular output, and a close monopoly of "home talent" to be gained by making overtures to prospective authors in the University before the outside presses have had opportunity to canvass. It would thus get the contract for books of a more or less popular appeal before they could be taken up outside. This would not only be remunerative and act as a sort of patronage for less favored books, but would give the Press a wider publicity abroad...
...forget what Murphy's handy men did in Congress, while he had his secret partnership in that British Government contract. You can't get at them this time. But you can get at Murphy's other handy men. Beat them...