Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seymour Parker Gilbert: A young man called to the relentless task of carrying out the reparation settlement, who achieved the incredible...
Yesterday was the first day of actual work on the part of the delegates, some 5000 of whom are in attendance. Among the outstanding visitors to the city at this time are Jane Addams of Hull House, 'Chicago, one of the most famous of the country's settlement workers; and George W. Wickersham, head of the President's law enforcement commission. Professor Frankfurter was one of several speakers on yesterday's program...
Although nominally a gala occasion, the business of Hull-House continued uninterrupted. Before an audience of social-workers and socialites in Bowen Hall, Mary E. McDowell, director of the University of Chicago Settlement, was telling of old days at Hull-House, showering the founder with graceful praise which was received with terse, straight-faced nods of the head...
...settlement's 41 years, matronly, active Miss Addams is too busy to say much. The idea of taking care of a great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, Manhattan socialite, from Marshall Field, Ill, grandson of the late Chicago department-store tycoon; at Reno, Nev. A settlement out of court gives Mrs. Field a $3,000,000 town house in Manhattan, more than $1,000,000 a year alimony, custody of the three children: Marshall IV, 14; Barbara, 11; Bernice...