Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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August Heckscher, 79½, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42¾, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work...
According to a mutual agreement settled before the debate, and according to the principle governing all debates participated in by Northwestern University, there were no judges of last night's contest, and no decision was rendered by the audience on the merits of the debate. In a vote at the finish of the regular 18 minutes speeches, after several of the audience had aired their views on the subject, however, the audience went on record as in favor of the laws...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...broad theory, I will never admit that our company broke the Jacksonville agreement ? admitting that I do not know any of the details . . ." answered Mr. Schwab. "I'm just a plain, blunt steel worker out of the mills of Pittsburgh, but no man here is more anxious to help in the situation than...
Both observers deem the Soviet State scrupulous in fulfilling the letter of its agreements, and yet inclined to adopt what Miss Thompson calls "a rather Machiavellian attitude," when it proves possible to mulct or ruin a foreign capitalist while still keeping within the limits of his concession agreement...