Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross, after receiving a penny encased in eight envelopes bearing 24 cents postage, in settlement of a bet on the Yale-Harvard game, from John Silsbee Lawrence, treasurer of the New England Council: "I have informed my Hartford legal friend to call off the suit which I had asked him to bring against you on next Monday if the debt was not paid by that time. . . . Why it should be so hard to collect a gambling debt, I do not know...
...Gandhi, was a world sensation and surprise package, opened by Prime Minister MacDonald in Queen Anne's red & gold drawing room at St. James's Palace. On the basis of the Second Conference's agreements & disagreements, the British Government tried subsequently to impose on India a settlement, certain features of which Mahatma Gandhi successfully resisted by his hunger strike (TIME, Oct. 3). Of one thing only the British felt certain: Burma, the eastern province of India, was to receive by her people's wish and by the Round Table's consent a separate status...
...officials at the Viceregal Capital, New Delhi, rushed around to Moslem leaders there. Within three days cablegrams from Delhi announced that a committee of the All-India Moslem Conference (which was not in session) repudiated the Allahabad Unity Conference (which had adjourned) and pledged support to the British communal settlement...
...debt question is entangled with other economic problems. Reduction has been suggested in return for trade concessions, and this again raises the tariff dispute. A settlement should be reached before the World Economic Conference assembles. In contrast to Mr. Roosevelt's plan, President Hoover has suggested a War Debt Commission that may identical with American delegation to the Conference. Some such centrality of control seems to be the wisest way out. But wether these matters are settled whole or piecemeal, the most pressing decision had better be made soon...
Once he has obtained a settlement from a company he harasses it no more. Though judges have termed him an obstructionist and a "professional privateer." he considers himself a guardian of property rights against the errors of irresponsible management...