Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary" InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, and it was called for by extraordinary circumstances. Supposedly these circumstances were the "altogether favorable opportunity" resulting from the settlement of the bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell...
...began at Montevideo three years ago when Secretary Hull showed him studied consideration, sent flowers to Senora Saavedra. It continued through the settlement of the Chaco dispute which Dr. Saavedra made entirely his own baby, even refusing election as President of the League of Nations Assembly to do so. Since Dr. Saavedra was adamant in rejecting all peace proposals which he did not originate, the U. S. delegate on the peace commission, Spruille Braden. carefully left the limelight to the distinguished Doctor. Again for the sake of his goodwill, the scene of the present conference was set at Buenos Aires...
...adding to that figure at the rate of $3,000,000 per day. Relief rolls were swelling, heavy construction being curtailed, perishable foods intended for export being dumped on local markets. San Francisco's Federation of Churches requested a day of "public and private prayers" for a strike settlement...
...features: 1) corporate simplification of RKO subsidiaries; 2) sale of new common stock to provide $1,600,000 fresh capital; 3) exchange of $11,600,000 in 6% debentures for new 5½% debentures plus stock; 4) acceptance by Rockefeller Center of 500,000 shares of new stock in settlement of claims for $9,150,000 for unpaid rent on offices, the Center Theatre and huge Music Hall's reduction of outstanding common stock by one-half...
...Boston and Cambridge there are some 25 settlement houses doing work among the poor. Each house has between 1000 and 3000 members. The settlement house is a neighborhood club for the entire family, and conducts activities for all ages...