Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the troubles which rose up to plague President Wilson's second administration was the nation-wide outbreak of labor disputes in the closing months of the World War. To aid in the settlement of one of these disputes, the strike of the California lumberjacks, Wilson sent to the coast the chairman of his War Labor Policies Board, the thirty-six-year-old, Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter. Arriving in San Francisco before the strike leaders, Frankfurter accepted an invitation to dinner on his first evening in the city, returned to his hotel at eleven o'clock. In the lobby...
...haggering six-weeks trial for conspiring to defraud the Government of $850,000 worth of income taxes, the Treasury last week maintained that Mr. Mitchell might not be a conspirator, but he still owed the Government money. Reportedly, the Treasury turned down an offer of a $100,000 settlement...
During November the Social Service Committee has placed 39 more men in settlement houses. With the help of the Cambridge Family Welfare Society, 40 Thanksgiving baskets were delivered. At least one member of the committee has been attending the bi-weekly luncheons of the Boys Workers' Federation of Greater Boston...
...William Christian Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., went to Warm Springs for his last instructions before leaving for Moscow. He was told to go to his post, find a place to live, settle himself, return as soon as he discovered what sort of settlement of U. S. and Russian prerecognition claims the Kremlin would agree...
...start of a new era. it was poetically fitting that Harvard sent down her leading team from Winthrop House, and that Yale's challenger was Saybrook College. Both of these old New England Colonial names--one that of the first Governor of Massachusetts, and the other the fourth English settlement in Connecticut, founded by the same John Winthrop--gave an interesting touch to the occasion. But the real interest lay in the fact that the first game was being played between Yale and Harvard on the new lines of purely amateur-coached and informally selected elevens. The game...