Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Film Foundation will cease. It has been decided to limit distribution of films to classes in Harvard and Radcliffe and to allow no outside rental except for a collection known as "Industrial Management" and certain other films of importance to University teaching and held under a special agreement...
...public recognition which he deserved. General Johnson settled the threatened coal strike by amendments to the bituminous coal code that cut hours from eight to seven per day, raised wages. The Appalachian coal operators, in whose mines the United Mine workers are strongest, were prompt to accept the agreement. The operators of the South and Southwest, who in years past have worsted the United Mine Workers, stood out against the change, maintained that higher freight rates from their mines necessitated lower wages. The Alabama operators even went so far as to shut down their mines to obtain a temporary injunction...
...ready within 15 days to furnish the President with 20 army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry and subjection of the industry to the proconsuls [northern coal operators who accepted the wage agreement] working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will come to that. Those operators seek to make a virtue of imposing more degrading working conditions and medieval barbarism than any other mining region"-and proceeded to pile...
Charles Edwin Mitchell's last great New Era deal was an agreement to merge Manhattan's many-branched Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. with his National City. Crashing bank stock prices made the terms of the deal look ridiculous, and on Nov. 7, 1929, National City's stockholders failed to ratify the merger. Same day some of Chase National Bank's bevy of affiliates began to buy Corn Exchange in the open market and elsewhere. Albert Henry Wiggin wanted to make Chase the biggest bank in the U. S. He did-but not by gobbling...
...agreement Mr. Van Sweringen signed was for the sale of $10,000,000 in government bonds from Van Sweringen Corp. to Union Trust Co., of which Joseph R. Nutt was chairman. The bonds were on deposit with J. P. Morgan & Co. against a Van Sweringen loan and were bound by indenture to stay there. But, said the grand jury, the Trust Company used its right of purchase to "window dress" its statement of financial condition in September, making it appear that saleable assets were higher than they really were. That was not all. Mr. Nutt had persuaded Mr. Van Sweringen...