Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then, as suddenly as it started, the strike was over. The night the President spoke, the National Mediation Board called in the union chiefs, told them to "bring your pillows" for an all-night session. No settlement was reached then, but the men, except for a handful of bitterenders, went back to work, in the morning. They had heard the President of the U.S. say: "No matter how serious you believe your grievances are, nothing can excuse the fact that you are adding to your country's danger. I ask you, in the name of our country, to return...
...Glee Club picked "Secret Marriage" by Cimarosa and "Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming" to sing to the settlement house charges who packed Sanders Theatre last night. Then it just clapped when the rest...
...carefully observed that while he had not abandoned hope of a settlement, the word "hopeful" was still too strong to describe his feelings. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had advocated a seat for the Chinese Communists in the U.N., also refused to surrender hope. "I cannot believe," he said, "that the hand of friendship, extended in this spirit, would be, for long, rejected by any nation or any people...
...prerequisite for solving the Korean question consists in the first place of the United Nations retaining a firm hold and resisting any attempt aimed at imposing conditions for settlement . . . through aggressive action or blackmail...
Beyond this, Pearson had no specific proposals. He thought the Western tune could be played by ear around the conference table. But broadly Canada favored a settlement in which Mao would withdraw from Korea in return for Western concessions-presumably the admission of the Chinese Communists to the United Nations and abandonment of Formosa and Chiang Kaishek...