Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the cotton contract, share croppers and share tenants will receive 25% to 50% of the benefit payments and landlords the rest-in most cases a considerable increase for tenants and croppers at the landlord's expense...
...cotton contract lasts for four years, the corn-hog contract for two years but both can be canceled at the close of any season by Government or farmers...
Significance. Though the cotton contract calls for a crop reduction of 30% to 45% below normal, it does not represent as stiff a cut as has been demanded by Southern Senators who want to boost the price of cotton. This fact, in conjunction with the smaller reduction in corn planting and no reduction at all in hog raising, indicates AAA's present belief that farm prices are not likely to flop, that those who want still higher prices are less to be feared than the loss of markets, the howls of consumers...
From the 4th Sunday after Epiphany (Feb. 2) to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 22), Chicago Catholics will hear sermons on matters like the contract of matrimony, the arrangements and external solemnity of marriage, the canonical impediments thereto, mixed marriages, divorce, birth control, abortion, the conditions under which marriages may be valid or null & void. ¶ In St. Louis was published For Better...
...antimacassars somewhere in New England, have been expertly woven into this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about an adolescent taking his first look at the grown-up world of 1906. Ah Wilderness! is notable also for one of those curiosities of billing that cinema contracts sometimes bring about. Wallace Beery, billed as the star, plays what amounts to an expanded bit-part. He is Uncle Sid, affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably...