Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More significant than the quarrel was the method of settlement. Donald Douglas concocted an indigenous plan which he thought would cure a number of labor ills. He offered to rehire the entire Northrop force (1,400) including workers whose layoff precipitated the strike, provided each man would sign an agreement on "conditions of employment." The conditions...
...will neither advocate nor participate in any coercion or any threats of bodily harm or damage to any employe, the property of any employe or the company or in any violence or unlawful act to enforce the settlement of any differences that may arise between this company and me or my fellow workmen...
...troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British position in Shanghai's International Settlement. As Japanese light artillery poured converging fire into the warehouse, it flamed in world headlines as "The Chinese Alamo...
Divorced. Thomas Franklin Manville Jr., egregious asbestos heir; by Marcelle Edwards Manville, his fourth wife; in Reno. Reported settlement: $200,000; her original demand...
...luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped out to a man. But the cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers...