Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai year ago a square-bearded, black-robed, one-armed French Jesuit, Father Jacquinot de Besange, originated the safety zone scheme. Colorful, 60-year-old Father Jacquinot, aristocrat by birth, prevailed upon Chinese and Japanese military heads to keep the Nantao area, the old native city next the International Settlement, free of fighting and bombardment. This area, dubbed the Jacquinot Zone, sheltered 250,000 refugee Chinese. Last week, 100,000 of them still huddled there...
America's Town Meeting of the Air (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) opens its fourth radio season with Journalist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson. Editor Felix Morley. Subject: "Where Will The Munich Settlement Lead...
...Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase-coiner, Rector McKee calls Rainsford House a "clinical laboratory." declares he hopes to attract the "best leadership" arriving in Manhattan every year, to provide it with channels for "significant service...
...defending the Four-Power Pact the Funsters stated that Hitler was not bluffing about his intention of annexing the Sutdeten area, that the democracies didn't have the will to fight, that a manifest injustice was remedied by the Munich settlement, and that German demands are now satisfied. Rendigs T. Fels '39 and Ralph L. Gustin, Jr., '40 completed the Dunster roster...
...Social Service unit, which is headed by Irving S, Michelman '39, announced yesterday that it had enlisted 160 volunteers this Fall and hoped soon to have more than 200 men engaged in boys' club work at the 30 Boston and Cambridge settlement houses served...