Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carpet for inspection last week, the Hoover Administration thought it timely to announce once more through Undersecretary of the U. S. Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills that the sums which the Allies expect to receive from Germany and those which the Allies are expected to pay the U. S. in settlement of their War debts are "unrelated"-that even if Germany defaults, the U. S Government (not to be confused with U. S. holders of German 5½'s) will still expect and demand to be paid by the Allies...
...greatest part of the service is performed in settlement houses such as Lincoln House, North Bennet Street Industrial School, Denison House, Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Emmanuel Memorial House, and the Ellis Memorial. Here the volunteers act as lenders in the activities of the boys' organizations, refereeing or coaching basketball, aiding in naturalization work, teaching arithmetic, english, history, and geography. The "home librarios" form another of the most important phases of the work. Certain books are read by the members of the boys' clubs who write short reports telling whether they liked or disliked reading. General discussions follow...
Prince & Whitely. Eugene L. Garey, counsel for Prince & Whitely, insolvent, last week promised there will soon be "a substantial and satisfactory settlement." He flayed criticism of Prince & Whitely's management, said the firm had used $12,000,000 to support the market and "protect the public from unjustified market losses...
This new development is to be a temporary means of assisting the experiments of the School of the Drama pending a settlement of the question of the use of the Rogers Building, a problem which has confronted officials both of the Naval Science Department and of the Cambridge School of the Drama for many months...
...Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches...