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...decent" woman of wealth makes proper provision for the man who "lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
Then abruptly the action was settled out of court. Rumor had it that Captain Cunningham-Reid had secured a "handsome settlement," and his wife also paid the legal costs...
...three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...
...everyone. To his chief opposition, the Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, he could point out the embryonic trade pacts. To the fiercely nationalistic Sinn Feiners he could recall his "32 counties or nothing." To the British he could offer his readiness to shelve partition for a practical settlement...
...force contracts from employers is long and cumbersome. Moreover, the independent, "inside" union has made great strides in membership, and has clearly shown that it would be less exacting than the American Federation of Labor. But Harvard has chosen to discard technicalities and to make the kind of settlement the majority of the dining-hall workers desired. For this it is to be commended...