Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Included in the property settlement was the stipulation that Mr. Eaton must buy Mrs. Eaton a $35,000 house if his net worth ever rises above...
...under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...
...exhibitor daring to show the picture. This meant not only that MGM might be liable for damages to exhibitors who were forced to pay the Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess received in addition to her cash award a stipulation that hereafter Rasputin and the Empress will only be shown with a preface explaining "Princess Natasha" is entirely fictional...