Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola was 20 in 1901 he brought suit in French courts claiming that the inheritance settlement promised him had never been paid. According to Deputy Asua the case was quashed when King Alfonso, Don Carlos de Bourbon and Fernando Marlo de Baviera presented documents disproving the entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only...
...Land Banks lend farmers enough to pay up their back taxes and interest and make a new and better deal with their own mortgage holders. Such a scheme pivoted on the belief that mortgagees would gladly reduce principal and interest in return for either a cash settlement or a government-guaranteed security of less value...
...importance of the bill, then, does not lie in any sudden gift of war-powers to the Executive, but in that it will enable the United States to cooperate more effectively with the League in the settlement of disputes between smaller nations. American under Stimson's leadership has been working towards a closer concurrence with that body, which thought somewhat discredited of late, will obtain a fairer test of its abilities if it can depend more confidently on President Roosevelt's support...
...separation from his first wife Marion, daughter of Manhattan's late Mayor William Jay Gaynor, he enlisted as a British Army private, rose to lieutenant colonel, won a Commandership of the Order of the British Empire. Last week his lawyer said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement to avoid a scandalous "confession...
...Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese division. With that proclamation properly published, Young Chang took off from Peiping in his luxurious trimotored plane for the safety of the Shanghai International Settlement. From there he proposed to sail at once for Europe-oblivious to the fate of 150,000 Chinese soldiers whom he left stranded in Jehol and the Peiping area. The official flourish of abdication (for it amounted to that) was made in high Chinese style by the Young Marshal, thus...