Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan's 11,000,000 spindles, was powerful enough in itself to make a binding agreement; 2) that both the Japanese and the U. S. Governments would be delighted by a private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia...
...concentrate on the Handbook, and work on a final clothes drive at the end of the year, gathering old discarded clothes and books which can be used the next year. This group also does some social service work and tries to interest other members of their class in the settlement houses. It is interesting to note that through the time given by undergraduates to these houses over three thousand people in Greater Boston were influenced last year...
...negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing to talk to his own employes, but would never treat with their outside C. I. O. leaders. "If they can sit in there," said...
...workers are consulting a union book of strike rules, but there's nothing in the book about Fry or how to make Fry work." On the fifth day the baffled strikers decided to forget about their union, sat down with President Fry and worked out a settlement as a "family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield...
After 15 months the old Senator claimed his mistress had betrayed his business secrets, ordered his hotel managers to throw her out. They had to take her door off its hinges and pull up her carpet before they succeeded. Senator Sharon gave her a fat cash settlement, thought he was through with her. But after two years Sarah Althea produced a marriage contract she claimed they had signed, also displayed letters from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging...