Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...
Anxious are Japanese authorities in Shanghai to get foreigners to resume living, shopping and paying taxes in Hongkew, the recently fought-over section of the International Settlement north of Soochow Creek that has long been predominantly Japanese. Hesitant British and U. S. former residents last week studied a list of regulations and inducements, published in English at Japanese Army headquarters...
...fumed in jail for four hours before her husband got her out. They started for Peiping with Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton lecturer, but Reischauer decided Shanghai would be safer. Two weeks later he was killed by a bomb in the International Settlement (TIME...
...Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years later...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...