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Piquant also are the recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
...contract for the new 60 inch reflecting telescope which is to be installed at Bloemfontein and which, as previously announced, will be the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, has been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh...
...Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant, Democratic donkey and Tammany tiger were originated-how lately and by whom? Answer: Th. Nast, 60 years...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish novelist: "The Italian firm which had contracted to publish my book The Muleteer of the Andes, was purchased recently by a Fascist. He dared not publish in the usual way a book by so prominent an anti-Fascist as myself. But neither did he wish to break my contract and pay me heavy damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine...
...contract auction bridge, what is meant by being "vulnerable...