Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Wright Stewart who was ousted by the Rockefellers from the chairmanship of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana (TIME, March 18, 1929); by his second wife. Mrs. Phyllis Shaw Stewart, named a "dangerous girl" by his first wife who divorced him in 1921; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Settlement: $340,000 over ten years...
Washington, April 30--Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady tonight left by airplane for Toledo to see if a settlement of the labor difficulties at the Chevrolet plants could be worked...
...Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts for disarmament had heretofore been based...
...success of the House Plan insofar as the participation of the students is concerned should spur the authorities on to the final settlement of other problems, a compatibility between the scaling of dining hall prices and eating at clubs, a more normal scaling of room rents, and an individuality other than athletic and social...
...Yale debaters argued in vain that a policy of self-sufficiency was only postponing a problem which demands settlement eventually. For the United States to look to her own interests can bring her nothing more than the ire of foreign powers. In addition they argued that fascism, dictatorship, and militarism have come with the economic nationalism of Italy and Germany...