Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio and newsmen wondered last week whether the new agreement was really a settlement of the old controversy or only one more excuse to keep it alive. The squabble between newspapers and radio began in earnest last summer when Columbia started its own news-gathering bureau. In two months Paul White, onetime United Pressman, had organized a staff of 600 correspondents. Columbia's News Service was successful but NBC, whose President Aylesworth is a bosom crony of A. P.'s Kent Cooper, had not had time to project a similar bureau before newspapers began strenuously objecting to Columbia...
James M. Estabrook '34, head of the Student Social Workers Committee of the Phillips Brooks House, announces a drive to interest undergraduates in working with the Red Cross, as teachers in English and naturalization classes, and as boys' workers in the settlement houses of the tenement districts of Boston and Cambridge. Volunteers are asked to report at Phillips Brooks House before Saturday between 9 and 12 o'clock...
...Cochran settlement amounted to $3,000,000 and Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
...dollar were the substance of the President's money message to Congress: 1) To issue no more gold coins; in future to keep all the monetary gold of the U. S. in the form of bullion [big gold bars] which will be used only in settlement of international trade balances. This step, generally foreseen, caused no surprise. Since gold coin is in little demand except in times of crisis and at such times goes into hoarding, it is worse than useless to the nation as a whole. 2) To have the Treasury take all the gold in the Federal...
...April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...