Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hope For Settlement...
...much thinking about Croat grievances, with an eye to settling them before Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini make a big gesture of stepping in and doing it for him. Last February conciliatory Dragisha Cvetkovitch replaced unpopular Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch and promptly began to negotiate with old Dr. Matchek for the settlement of the Croat-Serb dispute. Last week Serbs and Croats celebrated what they considered the resolution of the Croat problem...
...self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether provincial autonomy might weaken the country to the extent of jeopardizing national autonomy. The Hungarians are just as anxious to grab the Croats, for instance, as the Germans are to grab the Hungarians (see p.18...
...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...
...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...