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...these advantages were insufficient, the Government then awarded a so-called mail subsidy contract, under the provisions of which a total of $759,000 has been paid to the lumber company's steamship line for the "carriage of mail" that actually brought the Post Office Department only $274 in postage...
...legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were denied this in the District Court of Appeals by Referee John T. Scott who held that, despite a lower court's ruling, there was neither fraud nor deceit in the merger negotiations, that the merger contract was legal, that therefore Frances T. Wick et al. must pay their own expenses. While proponents of the merger hailed this as a vindication, Frances T. Wick et al. prepared an appeal...
...season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave rather than accept less money (TIME...
...Metropolitan's financial woes have kept it prominently in the news all season and last week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...
...Gatti became personal too: "He [Baritone Whitehill] asked me to give him a contract for next season with possibly a larger number of performances than during the past season. ... I was very sorry to be unable to accede to his request, for two reasons: ) because his vocal condition in the past few years was such that complaints had been made by patrons of the opera; 2) because, having reduced the duration of the season from 24 to 16 weeks we already had enough contracts with other artists and were unable to offer him an engagement...