Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First real stop was the thriving little tobacco-market town of Harrodsburg, Ky. Forty thousand people massed to hear President Roosevelt speak from a replica of a log fort built by Daniel Boone, to hear him signalize Harrodsburg as the first permanent white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures...
...picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which he did not report at a time when he was drawing $15,000 a year salary from his official jobs...
...Legionaries in Miami had their eyes glued not on payment of the rest of their Bonus certificates, without interest, in 1945, but on a full cash settlement in 1934. The Bonus groundswell which set in officially two years ago at the Portland, Ore. convention seemed to reach full tide last week on the silvery shores of Miami. A potent convert to prepayment without "usury" was Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1921) National Commander, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, onetime (1930-32) Minister to Canada. In Hoover times. Republican MacNider had stoutly battled the Bonuseers but now he owed...
Official Washington said that President Roosevelt would "stand on the Nine-Power Treaty." Realistically London's Financial News observed: "In all probability a settlement favorable to Britain can only be reached as part of a general agreement between Britain and Japan covering such political issues as the naval conference (see p. 16), mutual assistance and eco nomic matters like trade in Manchuria, in the British Empire and elsewhere, which are now being discussed by the Federation of British Industries Mission in Japan...
...high time that the government mediation committee on the National Labor Relations Board brings about a settlement of this dispute between the union leaders' demands for a closed shop and the A and P's insistence that an open shop be maintained. For it is obviously impossible that the demand of section 7a for collective bargaining with labor be satisfied when labor refuses to be collective by dividing into two groups, each group maintaining that it represents all employees and each group insisting that its individual policies be carried out. The entire removal of section 7a from the Code would...