Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Manhattan investment brokers; to Mrs. May Francis; in Reno, Nev.; 24 hours after being divorced by Mrs. Helen Werner Catchings. Mr. Catchings established Nevada residence; Mrs. Catchings sued. Reputed settlement (out of court): $1,000,000 cash, $50,000 a year alimony, $100,000 a year for maintenance of three minor children...
...purchase of a Ford station car for use of members of the society was also discussed at last night's meeting. The machine has been deemed necessary as a means of getting the workers to the settlement houses, and as a convenient way of taking confined children to the country. The project was recommended to the Cabinet by the Graduate Committee, but no definite action has been taken...
Among the more bulky articles three gifts predominated a Ford car, of unknown value: a piano, and a ton of ancient magazines of all kinds. The piano will be sent to a Settlement House, while the magazines will be sent to the Merchant Marine for use of the sailors...
...Starting from the Henry Street settlement in New York where I met Miss Lillian D. Wald, I encountered such depths of misery, moral and physical, as would appall the most experienced social workers. A great deal of child delinquency is due to the Prohibition law. Parents break the law and are inveterate drinkers. . . . The child becomes accustomed to see the law disobeyed. ... The very base of family life is different in the United States from that in older countries. About half the population have no religious beliefs at all. The home is merely a place for sleeping, or, occasionally, eating...
...attempts religious discussion groups for Freshmen, is affiliated with the student branch of the Y. M. C. A. The Phillips Brooks House devotes its energies to social service work, university hospitality, cooperation with student government, and is independent of national organization. Loan libraries, medical and dental clinics in Boston settlement houses, service to Student Council, Senior Album committee, or class groups, form the concrete daily routine of the Brooks House. Dwight Hall represents the clash of the conservative ambition of timid national organizations with a changed student mind, too filled with the sober religion of undergraduate activity to be receptive...