Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the "menacing fortress." Snapped the President: "British garrisons remain in many of our ports. ... But we are not without means of action. . . . We have great strength in the United States. . . . Do not forget that in the Peace Treaty President Wilson imposed as a condition on Lloyd George a settlement with Ireland. ... If the English are our best clients, we also are their best customers. Certain English ports' companies would be ruined if our cattle did not arrive. We are not so feeble as they think. They can not starve...
...plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...
...went into bankruptcy last December. Borsig was a substantial creditor of Motorenbau and its own creditors sought to collect. Hard-pressed for cash, Junkers entered into long negotiations with the hard-pressed Reich for aid. To avoid bankruptcy last week it announced suspension of all debt payments pending court settlement...
Seemingly General Shirakawa thought this "battle" would improve the morale of the Imperial troops. His own state of mind became more & more remarkable. Although the Occidental residents of Shanghai's International Settlement have recently seen whole shiploads of Japanese troops disembark in their Settlement, General Shirakawa took the position last week that all Japanese forces had disembarked outside the Settlement. "The Japanese army hopes," declared the General's official spokesman, "that its sacrificial effort to save the Settlement from gunfire is appreciated...
...Settlement was saved from Chinese gunfire solely by the fact that it harbored so many Occidentals that the Chinese dared not fire for fear of killing U. S. citizens, Britons. French...