Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of this period saw him sent on a second diplomatic errand to Italy to treat with Bernabo, tyrant of Milan, that "God of delit, and scourge of Lumbardye." Despite his business he discovered for himself Dante, Boccaccio, and Petarch, and the powerful city states of Genoa, Milan, and Florence enriched his observations. But his own London furnished him with the intimate knowledge of the many actors in his human comedy, and there he underwent an unconscious training for his masterpiece...
...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 he, "we can sit up here...
Last summer Roy Wilson Howard, up-from-the-bottom publisher of the New York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that...
...last lecture, on February 11, is entitled "Nature's Gift to China" and will treat of land and minerals in their eologic and economic setting...
...another. General Martin offered to lay aside, until a conference should begin, his demand that U. A. W. be recognized as sole bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters of "general corporate policy." But he would not do that unless U. A. W. should first withdraw its sit-downers, whom he denounced as lawless trespassers, from the Corporation's plants. With the strikers in possession, G. M. could not send strikebreakers into...