Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misadventure he had. He bought the bonds of Hinsdale County, Colo., and tried to get people to go there as a resort. To that end he built a group of luxurious cabins in an old mining settlement, invited people from far & wide to come as his guests. Then he was charged with conspiring with officials of the County to buy up its bonds at 30? on the dollar and get them refunded dollar for dollar. He was to have gone on trial on that charge Aug. 11. He did not, because Governor Landon ordered his arrest...
...there isn't any other story behind this.''* ¶ The NRA campaign kept intruding itself into the President's vacation most of the week. He signed trade codes for wool textiles, electrical goods, women's cloaks & suits. He approved Administrator Johnson's temporary settlement of the Penn sylvania coal strike (see p. 11). He announced the Government's readiness to adjust its contracts with NRA subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter to a Philadelphia woman who named her baby girl Nira, chuckled over the discovery of a town called...
...brick house, No. 265. Some of the moppets ran up to help with her luggage. They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker. She had come up from Philadelphia to run the Henry Street Settlement as successor to Lillian Wald who founded it 40 years ago. When Lillian Wald, a well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved...
...American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational newspapers because for 30 years they have been his opposition (in the form of Hearst's Times, Macfadden's defunct Daily). At 17 "Bing" Bingay started as an office boy on the Scripps...