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Last week the bonus was knocked in the head again. Ohio's Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) common pleas court upheld a Republic stockholder's contention that the extra $51,000 was too much of a good thing, ordered bluff Tom Girdler to give it back. Judge Stanley L. Orr laid it on hot & heavy: the size of the bonus, said he, had depended not upon Girdler's devotion to duty, but upon the size of the profits that were left at the end of the year. "If such conduct were approved," he said, "directors might soon forget that...
Last week a French court upheld him. The court ruled: the artist is the sole owner of all his work as long as it is unsigned, and he has the right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly...
Last week a presidential fact-finding board, appointed only a few hours before a pilots' strike deadline at Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. last May, released its recommendations. There was comfort for both sides. The board, which hoped that its recommendations would form a pattern for the airline industry, upheld the pilots' plea to bargain individually with lines. The board also granted 1) an increase in base pay of international route pilots of $750 a year, 2) an increase which could be as much as 30% for copilots, 3) revision of the twelve-year-old overall hour & mileage...
With appropriate irony, the University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center picked July 4 to publish a disturbing set of poll results. Items: one out of three U.S. citizens opposes freedom of speech in theory; in a practical test, less than a majority upheld the principle...
Cleaned Up. In McKeesport, Pa., OPAdministrator Kenneth Whitaker upheld a customer's claim that a dry-cleaning firm had no business charging him 10? extra a suit because he weighed...