Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard men offering to assist with a small amount of their time in this work are sent to various settlement houses in Boston, where they prepare adult foreign persons to take out citizenship papers. Work with youths in these houses consists in directing boys between the ages of 12 and 18 in basketball, debating, camping, woodworking, and handicraft. The settlement work is done in the following places: Lincoln House, Denison House, South End House, Ellis Memorial, Roxbury Neighborhood House, North Bennett Street Industrial School, North End Union, Elizabeth Peabody House, and the Cambridge...
...keep his people from exploding, Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek labored day & night, and with success. No Japanese subject was lynched last week anywhere in territory controlled by the Nanking Government. In the International Settlement of Shanghai (which has its own police) one Japanese riding in a ricksha was knocked out of it by Chinese mobsters who later knocked in the fronts of two Chinese tobacco shops selling Japanese cigarets...
Three times Chinese mobs were dispersed in the International Settlement before they could do more than stick up anti-Japanese posters. Correspondents reported that Japanese Marines behaved in the Settlement with "swaggering arrogance...
...quick settlement out of court ended what Chinese feminists had hoped would be a lengthy, thrilling and most educational cause celebre, opening the eyes of humble Chinese concubines to their wife-rights under China's new Legal Code (TIME, July 27). The settlement...
...Ganna Walska, Polish-born would-be opera singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died...