Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed Jaeger quit to pave the the way for a settlement between the opposition pastors and Dr. Mueller, to which the counsellor was considered a serious obstacle...
...social service committee of Phillips Brooks House yesterday held the first of a series of bi-weekly dinners for representatives of the settlement houses with which Brooks House has been working. The purpose of the meeting was to decide on the work to be done this year by volunteer students interested in directing settlement house group activities...
...Aquitania last week the first Mrs. Marshall Field departed quietly for Europe, financially secure with her $1,000,000-a-year settlement, domestically relieved to have her son, Marshall Field Jr., settled at Harvard, her daughters Bettine and Barbara in the Brearley School, Manhattan...
...relation to the national life than a conference and a plea for industrial peace. It is significant of the lack of any clearly-defined policy towards industry at Washington that the administration entertains the hope of a mere truce in the present difficulties. Apparently, the dream of permanent settlement of these difficulties, so optimistically fostered with the creation of the National Labor Board, and the Regional Labor Boards, cannot be realized for some time to come...
Last week it took the power and prestige of President Roosevelt to end a strike which had afflicted the textile industry for three weeks, had destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property and cost 15 lives. Settlement of the strike, which had flunked the National Labor Relations Board, was effected by a report from a Presidential Committee of three headed by New Hampshire's Governor Winant. No sooner had the President read this report at Hyde Park than he announced his approval of it, expressed the "very sincere hope" that strikers go back to work, without discrimination by employers...