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...hold it all. The Frick Art Reference Library, like Sir Robert Witt's in London, chose to specialize in photographs of works of art. It did not content itself with buying prints of pictures in museums, private collections and dealer galleries. Instead, it put special photographers under contract in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U. S., sent them to obscure collections, little-known churches, private houses...
...Attorney-General Cummings, talk to the Court: "We do not suggest that it was with any glad heart that we intervened in any contractual obligations. It was done only as a matter of supreme necessity." He was referring, of course, to the repeal of the gold clause on contracts made previous to the repeal resolution. Although there is no specific clause in the Constitution which forbids Congress to impair the obligation of contract (Article one, section ten prohibits state governments to do so), the question is whether or no the Fifth Amendment forbidding Congress to deprive a man of "property...
...Filthy, obscene, contaminating, Also in good spirits as she landed in Manhattan to close a $1,000 contract to tell her story to the tabloid Daily News last week, was Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, the U. S. music student whom Nazis arrested and held for four months at Berlin, charging her with everything from Communism to espionage (TIME...
...been absorbed in the Cleveland News. Later he handed the News on to his three sons, Daniel Jr., Carl & Mark. Last week big, blond Dan Hanna Jr., who worked his way up from pressroom apprentice to publisher, did something his grandfather would have approved. He signed an employment contract with the American Newspaper Guild...
...Cleveland contract with the Guild is the second of its kind in the land.* It provides a 40-hour five-day week, a minimum wage of $40 a week for newsmen and photographers with four years experience, a 10% pay rise for employes now receiving between $40 and $50 a week, three months pay for dismissed employes who have worked for the News nine years or more. Having secured so much, the Guild did not insist upon its supreme point-a closed shop...