Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from North and South (TIME, Nov. 15), succeeded last week in relentless, smashing style. Long-eared Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Iwane Matsui helped his infantry pincers close by turning loose Japan's most potent naval and land artillery, hurled great projectiles screaming clear over the International Settlement to score hits on Chinese positions at as much as 7,500 yards (about four miles...
Just inside the neutral Settlement, atop an exposed tower, the London Daily Telegraph's, ace Correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who recently flew from London to Hong Kong to cover the war, watched the capture of Shanghai with seven other whites. In the ensuing lull some 20 minutes later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets...
...every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial employes of all four Wilkes-Barre papers must hold Guild membership. The Wilkes-Barre settlement strongly contrasted with the Guild's turbulent campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, where 300 employes out of 2,300 have been noisily on strike nine weeks. The Eagle, first major New York City paper to be struck by the Guild, has been attacked not only frontally by aggressive picketing...
...suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students are the ones to interest boys in constructive recreation. The immediate solution, then is to organize local boys' clubs on some such basis...
Along with the announcement that the drive was expected to place 35 new workers for which places are now open in settlement houses in the vicinity, board chairman Sheldon Ware '38 revealed that 203 men had been given assignments, 63 more than that in November of last year...