Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler workers and perhaps 150,000 more in closed supply plants...
...least demanded a general knowledge of social sciences and some ability in combining the material of two different fields, which is more than can be said for the compulsory advanced course. The fact that History concentrators are spared suggests that the course was decided upon, not as a final settlement of the problem but just as some kind of a substitute for an exam which the student was no longer forced to take...
...long-suffering ex-judge (keeping close control over one of the hottest tempers in Washington), Cordell Hull's difficulties have long provided left-wing New Dealers with some of their favorite and more malicious anecdotes. They like to tell about the time he was told of the Munich settlement, glanced at the documents, drawled "Sure 'nough" and went on about his business. They tell of the time he spoke with quiet pride of his work as a reformer on the first modern U. S. income-tax bill back in 1913, while his audience-national planners, currency tinkerers, spenders...
...confinement in his barracks. The marriage was promptly annulled, and Mlle Lambrino was pensioned off ($12,000 a year) and banished from the country. A few months later she gave birth to a boy, named him Mircea. Mother & son went to Paris, and later she got another big settlement. Carol was soon sent on a trip to Egypt, India and Japan, only to find on his return that his family had picked out for him a beautiful and royal bride-to-be -Helen, sister of George II, the present King of Greece. They were married in 1921, and seven months...
...work out as Premier Maniu foresaw. Marie went into eclipse and Prince Stirbey into exile, but Magda turned up one day in Bucharest and took up residence in a swanky villa presented by the King. Helen departed after getting a settlement of some $80,000 annually and a promise to be allowed to see Mihai one month a year...