Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latest circulation figures: News, 35,741; Free Press, 34,721.) To the Congressional committee investigating TVA last summer the Free Press general manager explained T.E.P. could have had a cheaper rate under contract, added: "We never offered them a contract." This later caused Committee Counsel Francis Biddle to bark: "Tennessee Electric has been subsidizing...
...Castings: William Powell, absent from the screen for almost a year; in Return of the Thin Man, his first job under a new seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
BOSTON--The Boston Bruins announced that their salary battle with Eddle Shore, popular star defense man, had been settled and that he signed his contract for this season...
...might be, but this is not his fault. He had to fight to get it raised from $5,000 per picture last year. Other companies would gladly pay him much more but Republic, which gave him his first chance and put him on the map, has him under unbreakable contract...
...Curtis Publishing Co. (Sateve-post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) was refusing any further pickings to the Digest. A spokesman for the Post said relations between the two had been "most friendly" (the Digest is believed to have paid Curtis about $20,000 a year), but their contract would definitely not be renewed. Asked for a reason, he replied: "Figure it out for yourself." Best figuring: independent-minded Post Editor Wesley Winans Stout sees no reason for selling ammunition to an important newsstand rival...