Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies that are already carrying passengers and have set up organizations? That was the trouble in the first instance about competitive Lidding. The Post Office Department found it couldn't accept just anybody's bid. There had to be a determination of who would be able to perform, who could carry out the contracts. This is why the law provided for the award to the "lowest responsible" bidder and ultimately made it necessary for departmental discretion to be used in order to get the best service in different parts of the country for the public...
...Hollywood's ideas on the point of debutantes. Miss Dee, in the part of the social novitiate contributes comeliness and charm to her role, the saving grace in an otherwise run-of-the-mill movie. And let it not be claimed that the charm of the adorable Frances cannot perform such a miracle. The crowds that wait patiently through the show give ample testimony on this point...
...precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been approved presented a bill for $15.000 "for the specific services you instructed me on Nov. 13 to perform in Washington." Still another from Mr. Woolley to young Smoot declared that Western Air "regards yourself and your father as one of our major assets...
...Edward J. Doyle, president of Commonwealth Edison Co. Believing that his indictment might "be considered by some Edison Company stockholders as detrimental to their interests," President Doyle last week resigned. The Board accepted his resignation, but voted its confidence in him by putting him back in office. He will perform the duties of president without official title. The position of president will remain vacant...
...Gullahs are negroes, whose forefathers tilled the soil, reaped the harvests, and shined the boots of slave owners long before Emancipation; the present Gullahs perform the same homely functions today, and the Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...