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...Spanish-Moorish architecture, President Lieber decided that he wanted speedy construction. He called in. contractors, got their estimates, selected the Austin Company. This concern has branch offices throughout the country and specializes on unit construction, that is, buildings whose parts are standardized as to size and materials. This contract...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics through the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports, has asked Arnold Horween '20, head coach of of the University football team, to continue in this position with a contract running over a period of several years. The Committee is very anxious to retain Horween's services and has offered him this contract. No further details were available...
When Horween signed a one-year contract as head coach, many expressed the fear that his lack of experience would handicap him in his attempt to lead the University eleven, but the great and steady improvement of the team and the potentialities which it has shown have led the Committee to believe that he is entitled to a long-term contract...
...Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung a great fortune out of contract labor in Missouri swamps...
...Government official, engaged in making contracts for the Government, receives pecuniary favors from one with whom such contracts are made, a fraud is committed on the Government, and it matters not that the Government is subjected to no pecuniary loss or that the contract might have been an advantageous one to it. The entire transaction is tainted with favoritism, collusion and corruption, defeating the proper and lawful functions of the Government...