Word: contract
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...charge of the anthracite coal strike, called to wring a new contract from the operators, which he carried to a successful conclusion, after the personal intervention of President Harding...
...public: " The United Mine Workers regards a contract as a sacred obligation. It will abide by its agreements...
...Leviathan was to have a dock in Manhattan-the only unoccupied dock of sufficient length- Mayor Hylan of New York stepped in with an objection. The City of New York owns Pier 86, which the Shipping Board wanted for the Leviathan (TiME, May 5). However, in awarding the contract for the reconditioning of the President Buchanan, the Shipping Board trod on the toes of Brooklyn by awarding the contract to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company instead of to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which made the lower bid. Accordingly Mayor Hylan (who lives in Brooklyn, ''Bushwick Section") announced...
...This suggestion, if adopted, would violate the Contract Labor Laws," said Hugh Frayne, in charge of the New York office of the American Federation of Labor. He declared that the Federation would oppose any move of the sort suggested by Mr. Clarke...
...first clause of the contract on the back of the customary Western Union Telegraph Company blank limits the liability of the company to $500, except in case of repeated or specially valued messages. This limitation is valid because the company will assume full liability in consideration of the payment of a special charge, and a sender thus can insure his message if he wishes to do so. Otherwise it would be of doubtful validity...