Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the heading, "Wrong Righted," TIME, July 6, your conclusion that the settlement out of court of the $9,000,000 damage suits for cancelation of airmail contracts was a tacit admission on the part of the Government ''that its 1934 action had been wrongful is wholly unjustified and appears to be an intentional distortion of the relations between the parties involved...
Lawyer Hall was paid his $99,900 fee without question. But when he asked for $12,000 more, the embattled oil companies put up a fight, charging that Special Master Hall had tried to arrange an out-of-court settlement by which he would be cut in on the patents to the extent of $250,000. A U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally held: ''It is perfectly clear on the whole evidence that [Hall] betrayed his trust by attempting to deceive, intimidate and coerce a wealthy litigant . . . with the corrupt motive of gaining for himself an enormous...
...family profession also. This was last year when Tom Di Maggio, acting as his manager, in a financial dispute with the management of the Seals, threatened to take Joe out of baseball and put him on a fishing boat. Joe was willing, but in the nick of time a settlement was reached whereby Joe got $6,500 of the price for which his club had agreed to sell him to the Yankees. The Seals profited handsomely because Joe Di Maggio won the league pennant almost singlehanded. but to San Francisco's crabs the deal made no difference...
When the earthquake sound effects are over, the MacDonald sound effects begin again. Having rendered two night club ditties, "San Francisco," a mission anthem and part of the role of Marguerite in Faust, she is yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot...
What Correspondent Slocombe knows best is the depressing series of European conferences after 1919 in which the Allied statesmen tried to evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain...