Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appeals. Both readily admitted that their deal had been solely for tax purposes, but contended that the sales had been strictly bona fide, with each man repurchasing his stock at the market. It was up to the Government to prove that they had broken the law against an "agreement, plan or understanding to repurchase." As the hearing got under way the Government's prime points appeared to be: 1) that while Messrs, du Pont and Raskob were exchanging letters concerning their stock deals they were sharing an office at No. 230 Park Avenue; 2) that when Mr. Raskob gave...
...Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...
That evening some 4,000 grimly serious actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal...
...change until they see the outcome of White Generalissimo Franco's next big thrust, which Mussolini was confident would take place on the Madrid front toward the end of May. Guest von Neurath politely yielded to his host and agreed that "everything permitted by the non-intervention agreement" must be done to insure that German and Italian "volunteers" already in Spain have enough food to prevent their starving, enough guns to prevent their being butchered...
...Sugar is international. What he may have done for Franklin Roosevelt toward saving Democracy remained in the jackpot, but last week Special Ambassador Davis dealt the cards in the game of Sugar without anyone leaving the table, showed that even in 1937 22 nations could reach an economic agreement: a production-control scheme...