Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack...
...plans of the History Department toward relieving tutors of undue burdens attack an abuse of long standing. Plans A and B, as operating at present, however, fall short of an ideal settlement. Carried to their logical conclusion, these schemes would develop into a complete division between men fit to receive tutorial instruction and those...
...Father thinks your plan is the soundest approach to the problem. Mother agrees. I talked the whole thing over with her last night. She remarked that the proper settlement of the air mail problem and full support of the Subsistence Homestead Projects should be the first order of business with the Administration...
...their famed century-old boundary dispute. In an address of welcome President Roosevelt said: "These two great Republics . . . have never faltered in their determination to settle this boundary question by pacific means. . . . I am confident that your deliberations here will furnish further encouragement . . . for the principle of the pacific settlement of disputes among nations." Thereupon the two delegations, presided over by Ecuador's Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte and by Peru's Dr. Francisco Tudela y Varela, retired to deliberate, knowing that if they would not agree they were pledged to acknowledge President Roosevelt as arbiter...
Within an hour the 2,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai had been increased by 100 more who occupied the Hongkew section of the International Settlement and brusquely arrested as "suspects" everyone they could lay hands on. Every corner of the night club from which the pear core had been thrown was meanwhile ransacked by Japanese military police who said they were looking for "traces of pear peelings." Abjectly the Chinese night club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships...