Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into President Roosevelt's office last week were ushered two Britons whose patience had been sorely tried: Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Ever since Sir Frederick arrived five weeks ago to talk about settlement of Britain's War Debt to the U. S. ($4,500,000,000), the President and his Treasury officials had been up to their ears in domestic affairs. A few half-hours snatched from Acting Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson's crowded schedule were about all Sir Frederick, cooling his heels in the British Embassy, had to show...
Trypan-blue has been used to kill the spindly, boring animalcules (trypanosomes) which cause sleeping sickness. It is also useful to kill the microbes of malaria. In the Federated Malay States, at the Sungei Buloh leper settlement Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie discovered that the blue trypan dye attacked the fatty bacilli present in leprosy and tuberculosis (the forms of the diseases are related). Other investigators confirmed Dr. Ryrie's work, among them cautious Dr. Heiser...
Phillips Brooks House has started a drive to enroll students as settlement workers to aid in its annual program, it was announced yesterday. In explanation of the work, James M. Estabrook '34, chairman of the committee, has issued the following statement...
...make a shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues at Stresa. The immediate point should be a provision for the statement of his claims to the victors of 1914, and if he must be forced to table, humanity decrees...
...League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign last week, as did Ecuador which adjoins the Leticia region and hopes to have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil led South America a long step on the road to peace, the other nine "treaties" signed by Presidents Justo and Vargas, some of them mere agreements, served to adjust local issues between the A & B countries...