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What law or rule, written or unwritten, can justify the refusal of a hospital to receive a person in an extremity, through either illness or accident...
...year-old Settlement is governed by a Municipal Council which since 1930 has consisted (under an unwritten gentlemen's agreement) of five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, two Japanese...
...required ten months for Oliver to obtain a working knowledge of the Siwai. His method of learning the strange, unwritten tongue was to induce villagers to tell him familiar stories and myths of the tribe, while he wrote them down in phonetic spelling...
...continued war in Labor. Nor was he pleased by her justifiable notations that despite all the Greens and Lewises at the top, undeclared peace is steadily permeating U. S. Labor at the bottom. Between local unions in both camps, said she, "there is an increasing spirit of cooperation ... an unwritten but developing respect for each other's jurisdictions and joint action to protect certain rights and opportunities...
Main terms of the settlement: A board of two corporation executives, two national union officers will handle appeals from the shops, by unwritten understanding may call in a fifth arbiter when necessary. The corporation won a continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler...