Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important to Mr. Lewis than the wage increases thus won was the settle-ment of these strikes, which might have shut down a good part of the motor industry. In fact last week Chrysler plants shut down for two days because...
...overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members of the League of Nations, faithful to its principles and loyal to its Covenant! We have linked friendships which we shall maintain . . . contracted obligations to which we shall remain entirely loyal...
Having said so much, he proceeded to outline his idea of a reasonable settlement, including fair power rates to the public, a fair price to utilities for their properties if communities decide on public ownership. "The large private power networks within TVA transmission range depend for operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems...
...David Mannes became director of the New York Music School Settlement, oldest of its kind in the U. S. The school at first had only a half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...Texas, what William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon is to California, the Hay Creek is to Oregon. Hay Creek (and the Bonnyview Ranch with which it is combined) is an L-shaped tract stretching 100 miles from the southern to the western boundary. The main ranch settlement is as big as a good-sized village. In lambing time the huge "maternity hospital" will sleep 3,000 ewes...