Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President quickly summoned Senator Thomas to the White House. They shut the office door. They faced each other across a desk. They began talking-the unsmiling Oklahoma lawyer dead set on putting out more money, the genial Hyde Park squire equally determined to effect a friendly settlement by conciliation and compromise. Minutes ticked into hours. When they rose and said goodby, President Roosevelt had taken Senator Thomas completely into camp...
...until May when he impulsively resigned from the U. S. Peace Commission after President Wilson refused to give him an audience. An admirer of Lenin, he predicted that the Reds would oversweep all Europe. He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a breeder of war hates, flayed the Polish Corridor settlement, warned of an early end to Reparations. Said Bill Bullitt: "I am going to the Riviera, lie on the sand, kick my heels in the air and let the world go to hell...
...will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming conference, and one which he will undoubtedly need if this is not to be just...
...Settlement of the equity action brought against the College Tutoring Bureau by the Macmillan Company, Ginn and Company, and Houghton, Miffin will be made out of court at a conference to be held this week, it was revealed last night. The publishing companies claim that the outlines printed by the College Tutoring Bureau infringe upon the copyrights of several books used in History, Government, and Economics courses...
...buck-toothed Carol was feeling virtuous-having lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters...