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...plane through a factory roof during the National Air Races of 1929 in Cleveland. She sued her employers for $275,000, returned to England. Last week a referee in Jersey City, N. J. awarded Lady Heath $3,850 under the Workmen's Compensation Act, as out-of-court settlement...
When a man is permanently injured, his settlement check is HIS LAST RAILROAD CHECK. Generally he knows no other work. It is fair that these men or their dependents receive every dollar to which they are entitled. If there were not a few high grade firms ready to take the stigma of so-called "ambulance chasing" (a term incidentally fostered by corporations most affected by their ability), it would be a sad day for the workingmen of America...
...feel guilty. With an almost religious fervor Mr. Snowden cast the onus of this guilt upon his predecessors at the Exchequer. He directly faced and was seen to point an avenging finger at Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer negotiated the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement) as he said...
...cucumber-cool Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the sacrosanct London Times. The Times has deplored Mr. Lloyd George's feature-writing for William Randolph Hearst. Recently the Times dug back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused the Times of "garbling...
...Last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a warder from a Venezuelan leprosy settlement was horrified to discover an escaped case-of-leprosy who had somehow got himself sworn in as a policeman, was handling holiday crowds...