Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these debts; few who really understand the history of them deny that they are just. But there come times to all of us when we have to make compromises. That time has come with the war debts and the duty of the Democratic Administration is to reach a final settlement which will be really advantageous to the American people. This duty for the Democrats has become an opportunity because both Senate and House are overwhelmingly Democratic. Americans will watch and wait, hopefully, and with all friendly wishes to the President...
Latin America is in dangerous ebullition. Here again the Democrats face dangers and must seize the great opportunity to show that the United States is always willing to cooperate, never to dictate. The days of settlement by the marines are mercifully over. Every Latin American nation is as proud of its independence as we are. We must help them to be proud because they are making the rest of the world respect them. There has never been a time when Latin America as a whole held the United States in greater respect. The Democrats must build even higher on that...
...getting champion of this basic principle of world recovery, President-elect Fraser faces a battling, buffeting year, will need all the stamina packed into his tough, square-shouldered frame. Typical of direct, common-sense Fraser methods was the Bank's settlement last week of the issue of "double taxation" with the City of Basle. Radical aldermen have demanded that the city pry into the private income of each employe of the Bank (already taxed in his home country) and tax it again in Basle. The Bank retorted by offering the city a lump sum payment of 50,000 Swiss...
...such as to create a moral and material obligation to contribute to her support." Counsel for M. Briand's nephew & heir, Charles Billiau, admitted the open secret of Mme Nouteau's relationship, will contest her claim to receive either 150,000 francs ($6,000) in lump settlement or an annuity of 18,000 francs ($780). Two months before he died M. Briand sent Mme Nouteau 10,000 francs ($400) as the last of many presents, left her nothing in his will...
...Last week London financiers threw in another $400,000,000 for good measure, took the grand total $1,500.000,000 as their "lump sum." The U. S. they opined (and in some cases wagered) will not collect more than that from all the Allied Powers. Any Anglo-U. S. settlement, they thought, will have to be made provisional until France comes to debt terms with...