Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events: 1776, Declaration of Independence; 1787, framing of the Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1845, admission of Texas as a state; 1846, Oregon boundary settlement (U. S.-Canadian northwest border set at 49° north latitude); 1850, admission of California to the Union; 1865, end of Civil War; 1908, the Panama Canal...
...will take no action against the students who created considerable damage in the forward car Wednesday night, if they agree to settle with the company", he said. "We feel justified in expecting such a settlement, but we will not prosecute anyone unless it is necessary", the representative added...
...discussion will do much to dissipate any appearance of artificiality. After the welcoming address on Saturday morning by President Angell of Yale, who is Honorary President of the Advisory Council for the Assembly, the eleventh session of the sixth plenary meeting will immediately convene. They will discuss the "Compulsory Settlement of All International Disputes by Peaceful Means." The discussion will take the form of a debate on an amendment to the Covenant designed to "close the gap" which at present permits of war as a means of settlement of some disputes. Several amendments would be necessary to embody...
...proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...
...Association last week met the executive board of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor at Tampa, Fla. To the meeting President Hoover, vitally interested in expanding construction as an antidote for the stockmarket crash, sent a message: "To find a method for the amicable settlement of jurisdictional disputes is indeed one of the most important. questions in our labor relations. It is capable of solution. . . . I am indeed glad to wish success to your endeavors...