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...tough segment of U.S. labor was out of hand. Last week the nation's merchant fleet was tied up tight, the nation's ports were dead. This week there was some reason to expect a settlement of the biggest maritime strike in history, but only on labor's terms. The little moral authority which the Administration had left was wrecked...
...cover his living expenses for three months until his suit for separate maintenance could be tried. After that payment had been made, it was discovered that he had substantial means and Madame Ganna Walska thereupon sued for divorce. The divorce was granted but did not provide for any cash settlement or for any alimony...
...warehousemen were made idle at once. Many industries, including the immense garment and printing trades, air-braked to a creep by lack of supplies and glutted by unmovable finished products, served notice of shutdowns if the tieup continued. Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped in with a settlement proposal- the magic 18½-an-hour raise. But the drivers, against the urgings of their union leaders, tossed it back to him as unacceptable...
...Eternal Light (Sun. 11 a.m., NBC) Lillian Wald, the story of New York's Henry Street Settlement, with Jane Cowl...
...explorers who reached what is now Minnesota, Holand believes, were members of a long-range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...