Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest and thorniest disputes between the Army and Navy. The question: where, in coast defense, does naval aviation stop and military aviation begin? It was the kind of controversy that President Hoover, as commander-in-chief of both services, could not refer to an expert commission for settlement because all the experts? officers of the Army and Navy?were already professionally prejudiced...
Then came the Speech from the Throne, which according to custom was written by Prime Minister MacDonald, read by the Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey. His Majesty was made to express "profound satisfaction" with the results of the London Naval Conference,? evacuation of the Rhineland, reparations settlement at The Hague. He concluded with earnest prayers and pious hopes?and Parliament was over...
...from July i, 1930, to June 30, 1931, was arranged by Mr. Hays. In last week's Peace at Paris, "spheres of influence" throughout the world were established. U. S. talkie men received as their share of the world market the U. S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Straits Settlement, India, Russia. The Germans received most of Central Europe plus Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Dutch East Indies. Other countries, notably France and Great Britain, will be areas of free competition. The two groups will exchange patents...
...Parliament. The monopoly agreement is drawn up along the lines of the I. T. & T. Spanish concession. In China, on the other hand, the National Government last week termed invalid the franchise recently acquired by I. T. & T. to operate the telephone system in the International Settlement and the French Concession in Shanghai. The Chinese Ministry of Communications wants to take over these systems for the Government. "The Union of Chinese Telephone Subscribers" planned a telephone boycott...
Brother Joseph Dutton, 87, Trappist lay brother, Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt...