Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curious onlookers and a special detail of police watched the B. E. F. drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...
...Papen's Dream. Exceedingly ingenious and in the trickiest tradition of European diplomacy, the MacDonald-Herriot formula appeared to settle everything while actually settling nothing. It fitted the U. S. State Department's demand that Europe must reach a final settlement of Reparations without reference to War Debts, yet if the next U. S. President and Congress prove reluctant to cancel all or part of what Europe owes, the Allies or any one of them can regain a completely free hand, merely by failing to ratify the MacDonald-Herriot formula...
...persistently in England. This His Royal Highness is now doing (TIME, July 4), but is understood to have bet Her Royal Highness that the style cannot be revived, even by himself. As is usual when bets are made in the Royal Family, the ?25 is to go to charity. Settlement is supposed to be made at the close of this year's London "Season," ending traditionally with the Royal Garden Party...
Hardest question in U. S. History: "What controversies concerning Canada have arisen in the history of the United States? Describe definitely the settlement arrived at in two instances...
...collect legal proof against Miltiades. Then he starts trouble, mostly for himself. In his frantic search of Miltiades' house for the money, Ponny, whose pulling & groaning at last mean more than obesity, is frightened into a miscarriage and death. Handback finds himself glad to accept Miltiades' trifling settlement...