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...strike was called the hotels declared that previous offers were off. Week after week negotiations blew hot, then cold. Last month one hotel sued the City of San Francisco for damages, alleging insufficient police protection for continuation of operations. Last week on the strike's 87th day a settlement was finally arranged by which the front office clerks, about 75, were recognized, though on other points the strikers lost ground. Even after the settlement the strikers refused to return to work until the hotels signed contracts with twelve nonstriking unions such as barbers, electricians, musicians, et al. When this...
...down to the cliffs 25 years ago. My father, Mr. Frank D. Shields, and four other business men of San Francisco controlled the production at that time and as children my brother and I visited the Kiln for our summer holidays. An album of interesting pictures, showing the little settlement and the lively trams swinging over the mountains, is among our family possessions and if you were to climb to the big house on the top of the hill, you will discover my mother's recordings of the inches we grew each year- still clearly notched on the side...
...work had "to be abandoned about 1910, as I remember, due to a heavy cloudburst, which swept the complete little settlement into the creek and left the place in ruins...
Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham check looked almost like a settlement. At the time the president of the college, Brother Albert, explained: "I paid Mr. Madigan because I recognized a just debt and because I recognize that he has brought certain assets to St. Mary...