Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest the treatment given the captain and crew of Refrigerator No. 1. Since Russians and Japanese are still arguing over their bitter full-dress battle on the Manchukuoan border earlier this month, the affair of Refrigerator No. 1 did little to promote the amicable spirit needed for a settlement...
...them one course with George's Progress and Poverty as the text, died at the end of the year. Next year the school got a new director and a business manager, soon was giving free lessons, mostly to middle-aged people, in Y. M. C. A.'s, settlement houses, clubs, schools. Today there are classes in some 200 U. S. cities and seven foreign countries, and 5,000 people study Georgism by correspondence. New teachers cannot be trained fast enough. Honorary president of the school is venerable Philosopher John Dewey...
...recent killing of the Lamp Post, and its payment was proof enough to skeptical Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...
Thereupon the Governor took his drastic step. He ordered his soldiers to halt the NLRB proceedings, explained: "It is vital that the opposing parties . . . centre their attention on settlement of their differences." Said Maytag Attorney Edward Ford: "Rehashing the gripes of the men before a large crowd does not make for a peaceful atmosphere." Convinced that the company was trying to starve out the strikers the union professed to welcome martial intervention, said all that prevented settlement was Maytag's refusal to negotiate. Equally convinced that a State Governor lacked power to interfere with a Federal proceeding, NLRB ordered...
...dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father as a youth; the Countess makes no settlement on the Count...