Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentucky's Joseph E. Robinson: For the party to sponsor the 18th Amendment or its modification would overshadow all other issues and probably defeat our party. . . . There can be no settlement of the Prohibition question. It is a never-ending controversy. I do not favor a declaration...
Four suits still pend after the tunnel streetcar crash. Helen Sheehy asks $40,000. Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...
Last month 100 jobless miners from the barren little coal settlement of Pity-Me, Ohio, marched seven miles to Pomeroy. There in Common Pleas Court they declared their women and children were naked and starving. The Red Cross, they said, had refused to give them any relief. They asked legal permission to go out upon the Pomeroy streets and beg for pennies. This request was denied...
...province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last week he went further. On April 1, New South Wales must pay certain bondholders in Britain and the U. S. $4,273,140 in interest. Still riled by what he considers Britain's exorbitant interest charges, Laborite Lang suddenly announced that...
Shrinkage in estimate of the Wendel estate was due to various facts: 1) much of the Wendel real estate was held in the form of long leases with fixed rents, hence not salable at fancy prices; 2) all settlement costs must be borne by the residuary legatees and, what with impending litigation, the costs may be heavy...