Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Pittsburgh, Pa., one night five years ago Millionaire James H. Heim's car crashed into 17-year-old Donald St. Pierre's car. smacked it over an embankment. Millionaire Heim, who had with him a woman (later his wife), settled out of court to avoid publicity. Settlement: Heim to provide St. Pierre with everything he wanted till he was 21, then pay him $35,000 outright. Last week in Pittsburgh St. Pierre, now 22, sued Millionaire Heim for $31,000 "legal blackmail," alleged that he had been paid only $4,000 of the stipulated $35,000 final...
...America and the Peace Settlement," Professor Baxter, New Lecture Hall...
...brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work, was able finally to open shop again when its workers (unlike Nash's and Seaman Body's) accepted a 10% wage increase...
...Japanese immigrants were still welcome in Paraguay last week. A shipload of them arrived in Asunsion on their way to dig cotton plantations out of the forests of Eastern Paraguay not far from a similar settlement of White Russians. The Paraguayan Government demanded only one thing: Should the present tide in the Chaco war turn and Bolivia start to invade Paraguayan territory, the new immigrants must serve in the army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold...
...board of Lawyers County Trust Co., Meenan Coal Co. and Federal Broadcasting Co., and chairman of the board of trustees of the College of Forestry at Syracuse University: director of New York Life Insurance Co., Consolidated Indemnity and Insurance Co., Knott Corp., National Surety Corp., the Henry Street Settlement, Beekman Street Hospital and the Leauue of New York Theatres...