Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
...been uniform at least. In the Harvard Engineering School laboratory of soil mechanics, Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, a former member of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, has carried out experiments with the most modern equipment that go far towards explaining the reasons for the settlement...
...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...
Over the week-end King Leopold sent for choleric Colonel Georges ("Red Head"*) Theunis, negotiator of Belgium's debt settlement with the U. S. in 1925. Now a ranking Belgian elder statesman, former Premier Theunis emerged from retirement with reluctance. "The task is not simple," said he, "but I will do my best." His best, completed after three days, included M. Francqui as Minister Without Portfolio...
Switzerland. A spectacular promotion stunt by Swiss hotelkeepers backfired last week, sending the Swiss franc down below its gold point for the first time in months. To attract British winter sportsmen, the stunting bonifaces advertised that in settlement of Swiss hotel bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between...