Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halt (TIME. July 22). For each of the seconds had a second and he was Franklin Roosevelt. If Second-Second Roosevelt followed the ancient code he would merely stick a rapier into himself. Instead, last week, after the brawl was over, he announced the terms of an honorable settlement: Measure for Measure. With even-handed justice, the President found new jobs for Governor Pearson and Judge Wilson...
...Californians to get roaring drunk during most of Prohibition. Seven years ago a syndicate of U. S. hotelmen went two miles deeper into Mexico, to a hot springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted...
...ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference to the onetime Barbara Hutton, Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo declared...
...industry to which personal vanity, professional jealousy and creative carte blanche are as indispensable as they are to the cinema, upheavals in personnel are naturally more sudden, more dramatic, and more painful than elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable...
That last week's settlement might really have been amicable was indicated by the terms revealed. Producer Sheehan kept his fat block of Fox stock, got something like $360,000 for his contract which had 14 months to run. In the new regime at Fox-henceforth to be called Twentieth Century-Fox-Producer Zanuck will have Producer Sheehan's old job as Production Chief, direct studio operations under the nominal control of President Kent...