Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke tossed tear bombs, provoked a clash. That started the strike which spread until last week 15,000 soft coal miners were out in Pennsylvania. When United Mine officials volunteered to negotiate a strike settlement, U. S. Steel flatly refused to dicker with them...
...treat with either the Congress or with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall continue until an "honorable settlement" is reached. They made the Mahatma sole judge of what sort of settlement would be "honorable." Jubilant, Mr. Gandhi babbled, "If the Viceroy refuses this advance he will be insulting himself!" When the Mahatma telegraphed a request for audience with Viscount Willingdon it was promptly refused, whereat he telegraphed a second...
Flights & Flyers Via Brewery. While the rival whom he failed to beat was starting after fresh triumphs, hapless Jimmie Mattern was fretting and fuming at Anadyr, the isolated Siberian settlement where he was rescued fortnight ago (TIME, July 17). He had recovered from the effects of two weeks starvation, and he was able to hobble around on his broken ankle. All he wanted now was a chance to complete the first solo flight around the world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness...
...properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, he was in the Morgan offices when a bomb explosion rocked the building...
...their father's estate. For eleven years this suit, to which there were innumerable parties, children, strange grandchildren, stranger great grandchildren,* dragged on. Finally the law decided that Brother George had mismanaged the estate and a judgment for $50,000,000 was entered against the four trustees-settlement for which was made by compromise at $20,000,000. Meantime, however. Brother George had died, leaving an estate of $15,000,000 which was whittled down to $5,000,000 and promptly became the source of another legal battle between his seven legitimate and three legitimatized children- and their diverse...