Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that he had become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...
...operation of Nils Asther, one Agnes Esterhazt and one Bernhard Goetzke, show a German naval commander drearily betrayed by his wife. The triangle is grafted on Jutland by connecting scenes with British extras made up as sailors but looking more like members of an amateur dramatic club in a benefit performance of Pinafore. Best shot: a British warship taking the sudden, hardly perceptible list which means that she is going to sink...
...bill would prevent the issuance of injunctions: 1) to prevent strikes; 2) to impound strike benefit payments; 3) to stifle strike publicity; 4) to block strike meetings. No strike could be construed in restraint of trade. Temporary injunctions would be limited to five days and then only if the complainant posted a large bond. Violation of injunctions (contempt of court) would be tried before a jury. Applicants for injunctions would have to establish their case, not by affidavits, as now, but by sworn testimony to which Labor could make answer. Enjoiners would also have to prove they had made "every...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...