Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March, when the strike was six weeks old, the News management offered a settlement, in the form of a standard employment policy developed with other Milwaukee newspapers. It included restoration of the five-day week, minimum wages, vacations with pay, dismissal notice with pay, sick leave with pay. This offer was rejected by the Guild because the Hearst management would not agree to its being witnessed by Milwaukee's Federated Trades Council. In time's course, while Guildmen and sympathizers busily made deep cuts in News circulation and advertising, the national Guild organization joined the American Federation...
...editorial workers against William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News came to a peaceful conclusion. Only twelve Guildmen had stuck it out since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...
...Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion...
Last year Miss Astor gave Dr. Thorpe an uncontested divorce, custody of little Marylyn, a property settlement of $60,000. Last month the dark, willowy young actress suddenly petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court for full custody of her child, an annulment of her marriage and divorce. Each of these objectives Dr. Thorpe promptly opposed...
...Charging that RCAgents had secretly wined & dined young Philco female employes, involving them in "compromising situations to induce them to furnish confidential information, documents and designs, irate Philco sought to enjoin & restrain RCA from using "devious methods of trade rivalry. Philco demanded the return of allegedly stolen secrets a settlement for "substantial expense and damage in endeavoring to protect its business and property from RCA depredations...