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...rule of organized baseball dictates that club owners must submit contracts to unsigned players before Feb. 15 in order to retain their services. So last week the New York American League management forwarded a contract to George H. ("Babe") Ruth, basking temporarily in the Klieg-light of Hollywood. Mr. Ruth examined the document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small...
...newspaper has the right to refuse to publish advertising that it believes is untrue, misleading or unethical, even if the space contract has been signed-said New York Supreme Court Justice John B. M. Stephens last week. His decision upheld the Rochester Times-Union in its refusal to print advertising copy of the Amalgamated Furniture Factories, Inc., which tried to make the public believe that it manufactured its own furniture. Newspapermen lauded Justice Stephens and the Times-Union; makers of gewgaws, bunion cures, lewd pictures bit their tongues...
...Harvard ruling would bring to the managers of teams of other colleges--until those colleges accept, of necessity, the Harvard athletic policy in place of their own--should have some weight with the Harvard Committee on Athletics. It is natural that a manager should be reluctant to sign a contract that would leave a hole in his next year's schedule. But this they may say, is only a detail...
...gentleman of 40, full-fleshed and well-garmented, wrote his cheque in London last week for ?5,000 ($24,300), passed it over to a firm of caterers, and received from them a contract to furnish him with two meals a day for the rest of his life but never to reveal his name, even after his death...
...reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance of the Versailles Treaty, a denial...