Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asserting that General Motors had thereby broken its recent union-recognition agreement, which he claimed covered Canada as well as the U. S., impulsive young Homer Martin blew hot on the possibility of a sympathetic G. M. strike in the U. S. Over the week-end things were tense, but this week President Martin went to Washington to consult with his C.I.O. elders, and talk of a U. S. strike abruptly died down. In Oshawa, however, the strikers by unanimous vote turned down the first settlement terms arrived at by their own leaders in conference with the company...
...lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton's eating clubs have a gentleman's agreement with the administration not to serve liquor. Yalemen are not supposed to drink in their rooms, but many Yale clubs and fraternity houses have State permits for bars...
...Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...
Uberrima Fides. Widow Green's lawyers answered that the prenuptial agreement is not valid because 1) it was not properly executed; 2) under Texas law such a pact is against public policy of the State; 3) circumstances which attended the signing render it invalid. Under the doctrine of uberrima fides (utmost good faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate...
...clothing company is credited with having been the first in the trade to go in for national advertising (1897), first to adopt an "all-wool" policy (1900), first to abolish contract homework (1910), first to sign a collective bargaining agreement (1911), first with the camel's hair coat (1912), first to guarantee color-fastness (1915). Stressed particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start...