Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Service Committee led by Chairman E. S. Amazeen 31, secures places for several hundred Harvard students yearly to coach boy's clubs in settlement houses of Cambridge and Boston in various indoor sports and diversions. Students also take charge of boy scout groups, classes in naturalization of foreigners, and classes at the Cambridge jail. The judges of the juvenile courts have commended the students for their work in keeping-boys occupied...
...confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed by its bigger, better corollary: Secretary of State Stimson was enabled to announce that the details remaining for the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald to discuss are so few, so sure of settlement, that the U. S. and England will be ready to appear together at a naval conference of the five Sea Powers in December, this to be followed in 1936 by still another, greater conference...
...Mantell's statement proves an evident desire by interested imperialist circles to ruin the existing possibility of a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Russia and China and to make our relations with China more acute...
Aged 59. In 1870 a Masserano priest sealed two bottles of wine and stipulated in his will that they should go to the Pope who brought about the settlement of the Roman dispute with Italy. Last week 1,000 pilgrims from the Masserano district journeyed to Vatican City, delivered the two bottles to Pius...
...Berlin, both diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny that peace had been patched up. In Moscow, however, the Soviet Government's official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes of the line (TIME, July...