Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement by U. S. Secretary of State Stimson officially quashing the possibility of the U. S. Government's participation in the proposed International Bank. Secretary Stimson said: "While we look with interest and sympathy upon the efforts of the committee of experts to suggest a solution and a settlement of the vexing question of German reparations, this government does not desire to have any American official directly or indirectly participate in the collection of German reparations through the agency of this bank or otherwise...
...Ever since the close of the War the American government has consistently taken this position. It has never accepted membership on the reparations commission. The comparatively small sums which it receives under the Dawes Plan are applied solely to the settlement of the claims judicially ascertained by the mixed claims commission (the United States and Germany), and to the repayment of the expenses of the American Army of Occupation at Coblenz...
Acclaimed last week was President Hoover's settlement of the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute-South America's 46-year-old sideache. Only the voice of Bolivia was raised in dissent, but nobody paid attention to Bolivia...
...million dollars to 30 million. Not only were common stockholders asked to turn in five shares for one, but holders of preferred were requested to surrender their holdings, on a share-for-share basis, for new preferred plus a $20 cash payment. The cash payment would be in settlement of large accrued and unpaid dividends. President Franklin thought that only some such plan could prevent dissolution and reorganization...
...tried the teaching of useful trades, U. S. theories of liberty and government, the English language. She was met with forced interest, with acquiescence veiling suspicion. At length she turned to a universal language-music. She arranged for lessons for her polyglot proteges. In 1915 she established the Settlement Music School Building and endowed it permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then it became evident that, from a musical as well as a social point of view, nothing...