Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School is not legally a part of the University, controversy has sprung up as to whether the $150,000 should pass to the Episcopal students at the Harvard Divinity School. Henry B. Washburn, Dean of the Theological School, expressed his ignorance of the entire affair, predicting difficulties in its settlement...
...Flint, Wyndham Mortimer read the terms of the settlement to the sit-downers before John L. Lewis was again taking his 6 p. m. medicine. When he read that General Motors would recognize the Union as bargaining agent for its members, the sit-downers grumbled. When he read Mr. Knudsen's letter, the grumbling ended...
...result, says Ludwig, of the river's perennial lessons. "The calculation of the height of the flood produced the measurement of height, the marking out of single fields with boundaries that were washed away every year gave rise to square measure, to the protection of property and the settlement of boundary disputes. It was the Nile that created mathematics, law and equity, money and politics, long before any other association of people on the earth possessed them...
Through the Social Service Committee the Phillips Brooks House does its most constructive work outside the University. Through it are furnished over 150 graduates and undergraduates to do personnel work for charity organizations, clinics, and the twenty settlement houses of the Greater Boston area...
With this nicely articulated case against him, Percival E. Jackson, attorney for the plaintiffs, hid his surprise last week, quickly joined in a motion for adjournment when Mr. Proskauer read Mr. Doherty's offer of settlement. It included a tender of attorneys' fees for the suing stockholders. Wrote Mr. Doherty from his ten hospital rooms: "I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation...