Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fund raised by the larger corporations to import contract labor from Europe is the proposal of Lewis L. Clarke, President of the American Exchange National Bank, Manhattan...
...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...
Leon Bocqueraz, Vice President of the Federal Company, says: " The repudiation of our contract with China by the Peking Government would leave Chinese-American communications entirely in the hands of the British and Japanese. The American State Department has been appealed to, and is standing squarely behind the Federal Company." He goes on to say that the Japanese claim is in direct contradiction to their professed agreement with the open door policy, voiced at the Washington Conference...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion of the world, announced his retirement from the ring after two fights for which he is now under contract. Kilbane has held the featherweight title for twelve years. He will climb into the ring with Eugene Criqui, Frenchman, at the Polo Grounds, New York, on June 2. If he climbs out again undefeated, he will take on Johnny Dundee, and then hang up his gloves forever...