Word: contract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joined the angelic host. Nevertheless, at the biennial convention of District 1 of the United Mine Workers, held at Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Lewis pulled wires which brought an unexpected peace. President Lewis wanted no division of his supporters while he was carrying on negotiations for a new contract with the mine operators...
...Warriner declared: " Actually the miners presented 35 demands for changes in wages and working conditions instead of 11 as would at first glance appear. . . . Past experience has demonstrated that an anthracite wage contract cannot be negotiated in a hurry." John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, replied: " We feel it unwarranted to anticipate that this conference cannot function and secure an agreement before Aug. 31." After the operators had twice broached the subject of a truce, the matter was dropped...
...these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
From Cincinnati, Ohio, comes the news that the Allied American Corporation, comprising "more than 30 large American firms," concluded a contract with the Russian Soviet Government. " A yearly turnover of $2,400,000 is confidently expected...
Edith Kelley Gould, dancer, will soon appear in a Paris music hall on a twelve weeks' contract. She married Frank J. Gould when playing in In Havana in 1910, was divorced...