Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there will not be revealed until the reciprocal trade agreement between Canada and the U. S. is published, but the President and the Prime Minister found much in common. Had not Mr. King taken a Ph.D. at the President's alma mater. Harvard? Had he not once done settlement work under Jane Addams in Chicago? Had he not written a treatise on industrial relations for the Rockefeller Foundation? All were subjects dear to the President's heart. With such topics for preliminary talk it was not necessary to dwell on the Prime Minister's post-election statement...
Barring a miraculous peace settlement, which can be achieved only after Mussolini's return to sanity, the League of Nation's sanctions will go into effect on November 18. Assuming Mussolini remains mentally in status quo, and refuses to capitulate until the actual end is in sight, the Italian people are in for as uncomfortable a few months as one could wish his bitterest enemy...
...they can possibly gain from their leader's private war. To just what extent a people may be held responsible for the acts of their statesmen is a nice philosophical point. All we in America can do is to avoid condemning the Italians themselves. For without tolerance, no real settlement of the Ethiopian or any other war is possible...
...Gustave Gillman did not win. Many of his words were rejected as Scottish slang, dialect, obsolete. Contestant Gillman later lost a similar contest held by Consolidated Cigar Corp., won an out-of-court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom...
...President Alexander Zaimis remained mum as the Sphinx all week while his resignation was rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...