Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State, at least, the ultimate settlement of these contradictory rulings will rest on the interpretation placed by higher courts on the relationship between a publication and its advertising client. If the Guild can establish a "unity of interest" between a newspaper & its advertisers analogous to that between a manufacturer & a retailer, it will probably win. Union aim now is to picket in a manner which falls within the definition of secondary picketing, not secondary boycott...
...scene in Shanghai's International Settlement, every effort to dissuade the Japanese from celebrating their victory with a boastful parade was made, meanwhile, by British Brigadier Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...
...more spine-tingling incident closed the day. After the bombing, Japanese patrols occupied 30 square blocks in Shanghai in the district where it occurred. The maneuver blocked traffic in the International Settlement and a U. S. Marine courier ignored a pistol leveled at him as he rode his motorcycle through the Japanese lines. When U.S. Marine commander, General Beaumont, learned that these Japanese patrols overlapped three blocks into the section of Shanghai under U. S. guard, he sent Colonel Charles F. B. Price to visit the Japanese commander and tell him to get his men out. The Marine officers...
...were trespassing on U. S.-guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
...Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing...