Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics. The Board of Tax Appeals, after mulling over the case two years, sanctioned the deduction of the racing bets on the ground that Mr. Shouse followed racing for profit; but ruled that the election losses "were the result of an illegal transaction" and therefore nondeductible. A compromise settlement of $1,218 was accepted by the Treasury...
...students in their respective schools. The Foreign Student Committee entertained 75 foreign students at a reception at which they were addressed by Dean Sperry, of the Divinity School. The Social Service Committee during the past week has been interviewing students interested in doing volunteer work at the settlement houses in Greater Boston, and has also secured about 200 passes for football games at the Stadium for members of boys clubs and scout troops. The speakers Committee has already filled two requests for Harvard students to act as speakers...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...Celebrations commemorating 2soth anniversary of city settlement; at New Brunswick...
...excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest and at one time the largest Finnish-American newspaper, a communist triweekly, the Uusi Kotimaa. Though not a Finn, I have spent the past seven years supervising their school...