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First came the statement that established his own position?a letter from Otto H. Kahn, in behalf of the Metropolitan Board of Directors, extending his contract until May 31, 1931, in appreciation of "his brilliancy of artistic achievement and resourcefulness of management." So was Signor Gatti-Casazza honored at the close of his 18th season. Many knew that his old contract extended to 1929, saw that its extension was to insure his direction for at least three seasons in the new home, to squelch the rumor that a change of home means a change of organization...
...fraternity and the stadium are expensive necessities. Neither could have come into existence without the aid of in third party to the college contract, the graduate. He has furnished the funds, he has taken title to the property, he has controlled the details of the organization. Having no responsibility to the college administration and even openly contemptuous of its half-understood aims, the graduate has often worked completely at odds with the college with the sublime disregard of truth and has told the students that what they learned in the classroom was of no importance to them...
...best of legitimate actors. He has played films before but never with conspicuous success. The pictures have not been up to his acting. So great a success has he made in this one that he will be lost to the stage for the next three years, on contract in California...
...about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
Nevertheless native operators as well as shippers know the basic need for a national merchant marine. They hope perpetually that operating costs will contract or that some managerial genius will arise to keep national ships moving so efficiently that they can really meet foreign competition...