Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House bargain: Senator Thomas was to drop his own drive for mandatory inflation and sponsor a bill of the President's making which would give the President authority to do any or all of the things demanded by inflationists. President Roosevelt had surrendered in principle to the Thomas school of thought but he had also won a strategic victory. Not only had he changed Senator Thomas into an Administrative ally but he had stripped Congress of the power to inflate recklessly. The White House and one man. not the Capitol and 531 would hereafter fix the currency...
Zanuck. When employes agreed to accept the 50% cut last month, they did so on condition that the Academy, after conferring with producers, should set a date for full salaries to be resumed. Only studio which did not keep the bargain was Warner Brothers. President Harry Warner said the company could not resume the old scale until April 17, a week later than the day set by the Academy. The production chief of Warner Brothers' studio, Darryl Francis Zanuck, found himself in an awkward position. He had persuaded Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first...
...tens of thousands of men & women on farms, in kitchens, behind bargain and lunch counters, advertisements like the above are addressed day after day in the U. S. Last month The Author & Journalist, free lance writers' tradepaper, revealed what happens when, a moron answers the advertisement...
...standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced to liquidate half a million dollars worth of books would be thrown on the market at bargain prices. Brentano's, which increased the number of its stores from three to ten before the Depression, had been caught overextended...
Only one German felt strong enough to drive a bargain last week with Chancellor Hitler (see above). The bargain: Monkish little Dr. Hans Luther (twice Chancellor, 1925, 1926) agreed to resign as President of the Reichsbank if Chancellor Hitler would appoint him on the spot Ambassador to Washington. Both men scrupulously kept their word...