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Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...
...exhibitor daring to show the picture. This meant not only that MGM might be liable for damages to exhibitors who were forced to pay the Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess received in addition to her cash award a stipulation that hereafter Rasputin and the Empress will only be shown with a preface explaining "Princess Natasha" is entirely fictional...
...strike developed because of labor dissatisfaction with the terms of an arbitration award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again...
Wails and smiles greeted his order. For days the Governor had been trying to manage an unmanageable situation. Last May Minneapolis' first truck strike was "successfully" settled by a compromise. It broke out again when the union accused the truck owners of "chiseling" on the settlement, demanded the right to represent not only drivers and helpers but "inside workers" as well...