Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite Sir Ronald's statement "everything has been arranged between President-elect Roosevelt and myself." negotiations will continue until Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is thoroughly convinced that a settlement has virtually been reached or is virtually impossible. In the latter case Scot MacDonald will not go to the U. S. at all and Britain will quietly default. In the former happy case, Britain's snowy-haired Prime Minister will go with appropriate fanfare to sleep once more in the White House, will "agree" with President Roosevelt on debts as he "agreed" with President Hoover on naval disarmament...
Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured...
...John Rolfe, ambitious for gold but willing to work for it. He lost his young wife in child-birth but kept his faith in tobacco-planting. He and Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled for her native...
...fall and early winter some 80 men have given their services regularly to Social Services projects, and have taken part in many different types of work. A large percentage of these men are graduate students, although many undergraduates have shown an interest in the work done at the settlement houses in the past few years...
...volunteer students includes coaching in athletics and debating, and instruction in elementary sciences and teaching English to foreigners for the purpose of naturalization. A new service on the part of Phillips Brooks House has been to provide orchestras, made up of students, to play for dances in the settlement districts...