Word: settlement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marshall Robsion's election Republicans revived the 1928 religious issue against Democrats. Big newspapers maintained a troubled silence on the campaign. Under a new law election returns will not be counted until the day after the polls close. In the event of a dose contest for House control, settlement of the issue may be delayed until the Kentucky count is completed...
Next step for which large member banks are agitating: a weekly, instead of semiweekly, settlement...
...peak of the tercentenary celebration of the settlement of Boston was marked by the annual meeting of the American Legion. Doubtless the founders, could, they have looked down on their city during that week, would have felt honored. The Legion has not been distinguished for the decorum and sobriety of its conventions, but its excesses in Boston seem to have passed the bounds of previous meetings except that at Kansas City...
...case of Uncas was this: in 1635 Connecticut settlers first began to buy land from Uncas,* friendly Pequod who later organized the Mohegans (an offshoot of the Mohicans), became the No. i sachem of Connecticut. In 1659 he sold the English for ?70 nine sq. mi. for the settlement of Norwich. He fought with them against other Indian tribes, horrified pious colonists with ruthless decapitation of his enemies. In 1682 Norwich deeded back to Uncas and "his heirs forever" some 200 acres of land on the edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase...
...arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...